Never Out of Season: How Having the Food We Want When We Want It Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future

by Rob Dunn

Book Overview

The bananas we eat today aren't your parents' bananas: We eat a recognizable, consistent breakfast fruit that was standardized in the 1960s from dozens into one basic banana. But because of that, the banana we love is dangerously susceptible to a pathogen that might wipe them out.

That's the story of our food today: Modern science has brought us produce in perpetual abundance once-rare fruits are seemingly never out of season, and we breed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031626072X
• ISBN13: 9780316260725
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"