2019-10-03

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2019-10-03 08:54 am
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2019/88: Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food -- Lenore Newman

2019/88: Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food -- Lenore Newman
Think of a great library of flavours. For the last century we have been recklessly burning all of the books. [loc. 1824[

The author is a professor of culinary geography, a job I had no idea existed: 'combines my love of travel with my love of eating'. Her investigation of species extinction and its impact on cuisine takes her from Iceland to Hawaii, from musings on mammoths -- the wave of their extinction moved at a human's walking pace -- to being eaten alive by mosquitoes in Canada's far north whilst in search of bison. more ... )