Bread, wine, chocolate the slow loss of foods we love

"Bread, Wine, and Chocolate, part journey to six continents in pursuit of delicious and endangered tastes, part investigation of the loss of biodiversity from soil to plate, tells the story of what we are losing, how we are losing it, and the inspiring people and places that are bringing back t...

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Main Author: Sethi, Simran (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: San Francisco : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015]
Edition: First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • What's at stake. Biodiversity
  • Taste
  • Wine. In the glass
  • On the vine
  • Tasting wine
  • Chocolate. The baba
  • The bar
  • Tasting chocolate
  • Coffee. The cup
  • The wild
  • Tasting coffee
  • Beer. The spice
  • The soul
  • Tasting beer
  • Bread. The temple
  • The blessing
  • Tasting bread
  • Octopus. Eight tentacles
  • Three hearts
  • Appendices: Methods of conserving agricultural biodiversity
  • Drivers of change in agricultural biodiversity.