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The lost supper : searching for the future of food in the flavors of the past / Taras Grescoe.

Summary:

"Many of us are worried (or at least we should be) about the impacts of globalization, pollution, and biotechnology on our diets. Whether it's monoculture crops, hormone-fed beef, or high-fructose corn syrup, industrially-produced foods have troubling consequences for us and the planet. But as culinary diversity diminishes, many people are looking to a surprising place to safeguard the future: into the past. The Lost Supper explores an idea that is quickly spreading among restaurateurs, food producers, scientists, and gastronomes around the world: that the key to healthy and sustainable eating lies not in looking forward, but in looking back to the foods that have sustained us through our half-million-year existence as a species."--publisher's website.

Record details

ISBN: 1771647639
ISBN: 9781771647632
ISBN: 9781778402128
Physical Description: 327 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Vancouver : Greystone Books, [2023]
Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-313) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Prologue -- Montreal: Kitchen dreams -- Mexico City: The secret of Axayacatl -- Ossabaw Island: Some pig -- Cádiz: the quintessence of putresence -- Yorkshire Dales: Hard cheese -- Puglia: The death of the immortals -- Cappadocia: Lost and found -- Saint-Jean-Sur-Richelieu: Bread alone -- Miʹwerʹla: The cooked and the raw -- Epilogue.l