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Bread, Wine, Chocolate illuminates not only what it means to recognize the importance of the foods we love, but also what it means to lose them. Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi explores the history and cultural importance of our most beloved tastes, 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 our food supply. Food is one of the greatest pleasures of human life. Our response to sweet, salty, bitter, or sour is deeply personal, combining our individual biological characteristics, personal preferences, and emotional connections. Bread, Wine, Chocolat illuminates not only what it means to recognize the importance of the foods we love, but also what it means to lose them. Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi reveals how the foods we enjoy are endangered by genetic erosion a slow and steady loss of diversity in what we grow and eat. In America today, food often looks and tastes the same, whether at a San Francisco farmers market or at a Midwestern potluck. Shockingly, 95% of the world's calories now come from only thirty species. Though supermarkets seem to be stocked with endless options, the differences between products are superficial, primarily in flavor and brand. Sethi draws on interviews with scientists, farmers, chefs, vintners, beer brewers, coffee roasters and others with firsthand knowledge of our food to reveal the multiple and interconnected reasons for this loss, and its consequences for our health, traditions, and culture. She travels to Ethiopian coffee forests, British yeast culture labs, and Ecuadoran cocoa plantations collecting fascinating stories that will inspire readers to eat more consciously and purposefully, better understand familiar and new foods, and learn what it takes to save the tastes that connect us with the world around us.
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9780061581083 | Harperone, October 25, 2016, cover price $15.99
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9781504645164 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 10, 2015), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Bread, Wine, Chocolate illuminates not only what it means to recognize the importance of the foods we love, but also what it means to lose them.
Paperback:
9781623493394, titled "Easy Edibles: How to Grow & Enjoy Fresh Food" | Texas A & M Univ Pr, September 15, 2015, cover price $22.95
Hardcover:
9780061581076 | Harperone, November 10, 2015, cover price $26.99
Product Description: Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi explores the history and cultural importance of our most beloved tastes, 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 our food supply...read more
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9781504645157, titled "Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love: Library Edition" | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 10, 2015), cover price $59.99 | About this edition: Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi explores the history and cultural importance of our most beloved tastes, 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 our food supply.
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9780760345634 | Voyageur Pr, September 15, 2015, cover price $21.99
Hardcover:
9781623363567 | Rodale Pr, March 31, 2015, cover price $32.50
Product Description: Recommended by the American Community Gardening Association Community gardening enhances the fabric of towns and cities through social interactions and accessibility to fresh food, creating an enormously positive effect in the lives of everyone it touches...read more
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9781604694840 | Timber Pr, December 30, 2014, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Recommended by the American Community Gardening Association Community gardening enhances the fabric of towns and cities through social interactions and accessibility to fresh food, creating an enormously positive effect in the lives of everyone it touches.
Product Description: Follow your zany muse and get creative with your vegetable garden. Niki Jabbour brings you 73 novel and inspiring food garden designs that include a cocktail garden featuring all the ingredients for your favorite drinks, a spicy retreat comprising 24 varieties of chile peppers, and a garden thatâs devoted to supplying year-round salad greens...read more
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9780307120281, titled "When Is My Birthday?" | Golden Pr, July 1, 1988, cover price $3.95 | also contains When Is My Birthday? | About this edition: Little Elmo helps Mom prepare a birthday party for big sister Daisy.
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9781612120614 | Storey Books, March 25, 2014, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Follow your zany muse and get creative with your vegetable garden.
Product Description: âA masterful distillation of permaculture in a way that is easy to apply to our gardens, farms, and lives today.â âDavid Cody, founder, Urban Permaculture Institute Once a fringe topic, permaculture is moving to the mainstream as gardeners who are ready to take their organic gardening to the next level are discovering the wisdom of a simple system that emphasizes the idea that by taking care of the earth, the earth takes care of you...read more
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9781604692709 | Timber Pr, January 15, 2013, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: âA masterful distillation of permaculture in a way that is easy to apply to our gardens, farms, and lives today.
Hardcover:
9781439878675 | 7 revised edition (CRC Pr I Llc, August 9, 2012), cover price $68.95
Hardcover:
9781111312336 | 2 edition (Delmar Pub, October 11, 2011), cover price $186.95
9781418050375 | 1 edition (Delmar Pub, March 10, 2008), cover price $204.95
Hardcover:
9781439856864 | CRC Pr I Llc, August 23, 2011, cover price $97.95
Product Description: Ask the Plant, based on the agronomy of K. Chandler, offers farmers and growers a better way to grow plants that involves reading the unique language of plants, utilizing leaf and petiole testing, and in turn knowing how to produce a better crop using only the fertilizers and soil-building ingredients that are truly needed, when they are most needed...read more
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9781601730152 | Acres USA, June 15, 2010, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Ask the Plant, based on the agronomy of K.
Product Description: A celebration of the wonders of the natural world, this beautiful yet practical book is a simple guide for people in Southern Africa to grow their own food in whatever space is available, using methods that are tried and tested, simple, low-cost, water-wise, and resourceful...read more
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9781770096509 | Jacana Media, April 1, 2010, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: A celebration of the wonders of the natural world, this beautiful yet practical book is a simple guide for people in Southern Africa to grow their own food in whatever space is available, using methods that are tried and tested, simple, low-cost, water-wise, and resourceful.
Hardcover:
9780307620286 | Goldencraft, December 1, 1988, cover price $11.93 | About this edition: Little Elmo helps Mom prepare a birthday party for big sister Daisy.
9780307120281 | Golden Pr, July 1, 1988, cover price $3.95 | also contains Groundbreaking Food Gardens: 73 Plans That Will Change the Way You Grow Your Garden | About this edition: Little Elmo helps Mom prepare a birthday party for big sister Daisy.
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