Bread, Wine, Chocolate, Paperback, Simran Sethi

Now Available in Paperback“Is biodiversity the key to a better cup of coffee? And how sexy can achieving food security really be? Simran Sethi’s answers are ‘yes’ and ‘you’d be surprised.’ In her book Bread, Wine, Chocolate, [Simran Sethi] looks at ways in which monoculture and an increasingly standardized global diet put food systems in peril and leave crops vulnerable to blight and climate change. And she does so winningly, by relishing her favorite things to eat and drink, visiting the places they're produced, digging up their stories and teasing out nuances of flavor unique to individual varieties and landscapes.”—Wall Street Journal“In Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love, Sethi describes how, in recent years, environmental and economic forces have decreased biodiversity and threatened the existence of some of our favorite foods and beverages.”— Boston Globe“Our tables . . . are never really of, or for, one, as Sethi elegantly shows us.”—NPR