Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
Dan Saladino
What Saladino finds in his adventures are people with soul-deep relationships to their food. This is not the decadence or the preciousness we…
| Издательство: | Straus and Giroux, Farrar |
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ISBN: 9780374605322
Год издания: 2022
Язык: Английский
464 pages, Hardcover
MOLLY YOUNG, THE NEW YORK TIMES
"Eating to Extinction is a celebration in the form of eclectic case studies ... Most of all, Saladino wishes to showcase the treasures we risk losing ... Saladino proves that one path to a reader's sustained attention is through her stomach. Dwelling on local and individual stories is also a way to counterbalance the ghoulish pessimism that can overtake a person when she confronts more than 350 pages' worth of evidence about our unfolding ecological crisis. The book is explicitly and passionately pedagogical, but it opts for the carrot over the stick. Look at all these earthly marvels! Saladino cries ... What Saladino finds in his adventures are people with soul-deep relationships to their food. This is not the decadence or the preciousness we might associate with a word like 'foodie,' but a form of reverence. And yet his book is also a form of dark tourism, with doom hovering over each edible miracle. That Saladino is able to simultaneously channel the euphoria of sipping pear cider that smells of 'damp autumnal forest' or tasting an inky qizha cake in the West Bank while underscoring the precariousness of these foods makes for a book that is both disturbing and enchanting."
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