Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal: A Food Science Nutrition History Book

The History Of Homo Sapiens Is Usually Told As A Story Of Technology Or Economics. But There Is A More Fundamental Driver: Food. How We Hunted And Gathered Explains Our Emergence As A New Species And Our Earliest Technology; Our First Food Systems, From Fire To Agriculture, Tell Where We Settled And How Civilisations Expanded. The Quest For Food For Growing Populations Drove Exploration, Colonialism, Slavery, Even Capitalism. A Century Ago, Food Was Industrialised. Since Then, New Styles Of Agriculture And Food Production Have Written A New Chapter Of Human History, One ThatS Driving Both Climate Change And Global Health Crises. Best-Selling Food Authority Mark Bittman Offers A Panoramic View Of The Story And Explains How We Can Rescue Ourselves From The Modern Wrong Turn.