Eating to extinction : the world's rarest foods and why we need to save them /

Over the past several decades, globalization has homogenized what we eat, and done so ruthlessly. The numbers are stark. Of the roughly six thousand different plants once consumed by human beings, only nine remain major staples today. Just three of these, rice, wheat and corn, now provide fifty perc...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Saladino, Dan, 1970- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2022].
Edition:	First American edition.
Subjects:	Food > History. Food supply > History. Agrobiodiversity. Agrobiodiversity conservation. Food industry and trade > Environmental aspects. HOUSE & HOME / General.