The Lost Supper
Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past. "A fascinating book that leaves you hungry for more."-Kirkus STARRED Review
(Sprache: Englisch)
The Lost Supper explores an idea that is quickly spreading among restaurateurs, food producers, scientists, and gastronomes around the world: that the key to healthy and sustainable eating lies not in looking forward, but in looking back to the foods that...
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The Lost Supper explores an idea that is quickly spreading among restaurateurs, food producers, scientists, and gastronomes around the world: that the key to healthy and sustainable eating lies not in looking forward, but in looking back to the foods that have sustained us through our half-million-year existence as a species.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Lost Supper “
Prologue1 MONTREAL
Kitchen Dreams
2 MEXICO CITY
The Secret of Axayacatl
3 OSSABAW ISLAND
Some Pig
4 CÁDIZ
The Quintessence of Putrescence
5 YORKSHIRE DALES
Hard Cheese
6 PUGLIA
The Death of the Immortals
7 CAPPADOCIA
Lost and Found
8 SAINT-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU
Bread Alone
9 MI'WER'LA
The Cooked and the Raw
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Index
Autoren-Porträt von Taras Grescoe
Taras Grescoe is the author of seven nonfiction books and a widely read commentator on the interplay of food, travel, and the environment. His journalism has been published in many of the world's leading newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, the Guardian, and National Geographic. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Taras Grescoe
- 2023, 312 Seiten, mit Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 15,7 x 23,2 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Greystone Books
- ISBN-10: 1771647639
- ISBN-13: 9781771647632
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.01.2024
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"An outstanding and crucial read amid this global emergency."
-Quill & Quire, STARRED Review
"I cheered when I read this book, a series of lyrically descriptive essays telling of the author's interesting journeys to find world's forgotten foods. It is beautifully persuasive."
-The Spectator
"[An] informative and engaging travelogue."
-Winnipeg Free Press
"Fascinating... Grescoe is ambitious for solutions."
-The Daily Telegraph
"...[the author's] intrepid attempt to satiate 'a wild impulse to experience the taste of ancient foods.'... sobering and hopeful in equal measure"
-Literary Review of Canada
"The Lost Supper... thrills with its escapist, aspirational appeal and ripped-from the-headlines documentary qualities. Surprising, often enthralling, facts about the past anchor Grescoe's trips... The book excels at bridging these deep histories with the present, resulting in the immediacy of an epicurean and archaeological adventure... Covering a global culinary adventure, The Lost Supper melds food history with culinary derring-do."
-Foreword Reviews
"Grescoe sets out an illuminating analysis of "dwindling nutritional diversity," what a more sustainable, nutritionally varied future might look like, and how food systems should change to get there... This is worth a look."
-Publishers Weekly
"In vivid and engaging prose, Grescoe makes the case that we shouldn't blame farming for our ills, but rather we need to return to ancient techniques and breeds. By remembering the diversity of forgotten foods we once ate, he argues that we can rebuild the health and resilience we've lost. The Lost Supper weaves fascinating history with delightful culinary adventure and will entrance anyone who's longed to taste the flavors of the past."
-Gina Rae La Cerva, author of Feasting Wild
"A treasure map that guides us to the delicious and nutritious foods that could very well save our
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species."
-Paul Greenberg, author of Four Fish
"A fresh look at our wild roots, from the true meaning of paleo (eating termites) to the dawn of monoculture and the collapse of culinary (and agricultural) diversity."
-Matt Siegel, author of The Secret History of Food
"Prepare for intrigue and a deep dive into the history of food, the Anthropocene's often unintended hand in shaping it, and what it means for the future. Grescoe's vibrant writing and delectable storytelling bring deep understanding to how we eat."
-Ian Knauer, chef and author of The Farm
"A surprising, flavorsome tour of ancient cuisines demonstrating how the way forward involves looking back. This is not just another slick volume about cooking exotic food. . . Grescoe advises readers to look beyond the supermarket shelves, think before they buy, and take some culinary chances. 'For those who champion the Earth's dwindling nutritional diversity,' he concludes, 'the message is as simple as it is urgent: to save it, you've got to eat it.' Grescoe writes with color, energy, and humor, and the result is a fascinating book that leaves you hungry for more."
-Kirkus STARRED Review
"If you are suffering from apocalypse fatigue when reading about global food, The Lost Supper may be the sane, personable, and imaginative exploration of the possibilities of eating here and now that you need. Grescoe has a historian's precision concerning the forces that imperil great foods and knows that the major lesson to be imparted to readers is how to surf change and keep community vital."
-David S. Shields, author of The Culinarians and co-author of Slow Food USA's The Ark of Taste
-Paul Greenberg, author of Four Fish
"A fresh look at our wild roots, from the true meaning of paleo (eating termites) to the dawn of monoculture and the collapse of culinary (and agricultural) diversity."
-Matt Siegel, author of The Secret History of Food
"Prepare for intrigue and a deep dive into the history of food, the Anthropocene's often unintended hand in shaping it, and what it means for the future. Grescoe's vibrant writing and delectable storytelling bring deep understanding to how we eat."
-Ian Knauer, chef and author of The Farm
"A surprising, flavorsome tour of ancient cuisines demonstrating how the way forward involves looking back. This is not just another slick volume about cooking exotic food. . . Grescoe advises readers to look beyond the supermarket shelves, think before they buy, and take some culinary chances. 'For those who champion the Earth's dwindling nutritional diversity,' he concludes, 'the message is as simple as it is urgent: to save it, you've got to eat it.' Grescoe writes with color, energy, and humor, and the result is a fascinating book that leaves you hungry for more."
-Kirkus STARRED Review
"If you are suffering from apocalypse fatigue when reading about global food, The Lost Supper may be the sane, personable, and imaginative exploration of the possibilities of eating here and now that you need. Grescoe has a historian's precision concerning the forces that imperil great foods and knows that the major lesson to be imparted to readers is how to surf change and keep community vital."
-David S. Shields, author of The Culinarians and co-author of Slow Food USA's The Ark of Taste
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