Sign Up or Sign In to add your review or comment. You will never look at what’s on your plate in quite the same way again. Part culinary romp, part environmental wake-up call, Lost Feast makes a critical contribution to our understanding of food security today. Whether it’s chasing down the luscious butter of local Icelandic cattle or looking at the impacts of modern industrialized agriculture on the range of food varieties we can put in our shopping carts, Newman’s bright, intelligent gaze finds insight and humor at every turn.īracketing the chapters that look at the history of our relationship to specific foods, Lenore enlists her ecologist friend and fellow cook, Dan, in a series of “extinction dinners” designed to recreate meals of the past or to illustrate how we might be eating in the future. SUPPLIED Lenore Newman’s new book Lost Feast. In Lost Feast, food expert Lenore Newman sets out to look at the history of the foods we have loved to death and what that means for the culinary paths we choose for the future. Published MaExpanded greenhouse production and indoor growing will increase the availability and quality of fruit and vegetables. In fact, we have often eaten them into extinction, whether it is the megafauna of the Paleolithic world or the passenger pigeon of the last century. When we humans love foods, we love them a lot. Taste Canada Silver Award Winner and Finalist for the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada AwardĪ rollicking exploration of the history and future of our favorite foods
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