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Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi explores the annals and cultural importance of our most beloved likes, paying homage to the ingredients that give us daily pleasure while providing a thoughtful wake-up call to the homogenization that is threatening the diversity of your food supply. Food is one of the greatest pleasures of human life. Our reaction to nice, salty, bitter, or sour is deeply personal, merging our individual biological characteristics, personal choices, and emotional links. Bread, Wine, Chocolates illuminates not only what this means to recognize the value of the foods we love but also what this means to lose them. Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi shows how the foods we enjoy are endangered by genetic erosion - a gradual and steady lack of variety in what we expand and eat. In America today, food often appears and tastes the same, whether at a SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA farmers market or at a Midwestern potluck. Shockingly, 95 percent of the world's energy now come from only 30 kinds. Though supermarkets seem to be to be stocked with countless options, the distinctions between products are superficial, mainly in flavour and brand. Sethi draws on interviews with scientists, farmers, chefs, vintners, beer brewers, caffeine roasters, yet others with firsthand knowledge of our food to disclose the multiple and interconnected known reasons for this loss and its consequences for our health and wellness, practices, and culture. She vacations to Ethiopian caffeine forests, British fungus culture labs, and Ecuadoran cocoa plantations collecting fascinating tales that will encourage listeners to eat more consciously and purposefully, better understand familiar and new foods, and learn what it takes to save lots of the likes that hook up us with the globe around us.
