Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food - Couverture rigide

Newman, Lenore

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1770414355 ISBN 13 : 9781770414358

Editeur : ECW Press,Canada, 2019

Synopsis

When we humans love foods, we love them a lot. In fact, we have often eaten them into extinction, whether it is the megafauna of the Paleolithic world or the passenger pigeon of the last century.

In Lost Feast, food expert Lenore Newman sets out to look at the history of the foods we have loved to death and what that means for the culinary paths we choose for the future. Whether it's chasing down the luscious butter of local Icelandic cattle or looking at the impacts of modern industrialised agriculture on the range of food varieties we can put in our shopping carts, Newman's bright, intelligent gaze finds insight and humour at every turn.

Bracketing the chapters that look at the history of our relationship to specific foods, Lenore enlists her ecologist friend and fellow cook, Dan, in a series of 'extinction dinners' designed to recreate meals of the past or to illustrate how we might be eating in the future.

Part culinary romp, part environmental wake-up call, Lost Feast makes a critical contribution to our understanding of food security today. You will never look at what's on your plate in quite the same way again.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Lenore Newman is the Canada Research Chair in Food Security and Environment at the University of the Fraser Valley. She is the author of the acclaimed <cite>Speaking in Cod Tongues: A Canadian Culinary Journey</cite>. She divides her time between Vancouver and Roberts Creek, British Columbia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: ECW Press,Canada
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1770414355
• ISBN 13: 9781770414358
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible