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Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love

✍️ Sethi, Simran
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🏛 HarperOne 📅 2015 📔 Hardcover ISBN: 9780061581076
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"Sethi explores the history and cultural importance of our most beloved tastes, paying homage to the ingredients that give us daily pleasure, while providing a ... wake-up call to [what she sees as] the homogenization that is threatening the diversity of our food supply"--Amazon.com.

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This title targets those interested in the socio-political aspects of food rather than practical culinary instruction. It is unsuitable for readers seeking recipes, technical baking guides, or quick dinner solutions. While it may lack the dense research expected by academic historians, it succeeds as a general interest overview. Readers preferring actionable advice on nutrition or cooking techniques will likely find it lacking in utility, viewing it instead as a philosophical meditation on loss rather than a manual for preservation.
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This title targets those interested in the socio-political aspects of food rather than practical culinary instruction. It is unsuitable for readers seeking recipes, technical baking guides, or quick dinner solutions. While it may lack the dense research expected by academic historians, it succeeds as a general interest overview. Readers preferring actionable advice on nutrition or cooking techniques will likely find it lacking in utility, viewing it instead as a philosophical meditation on loss rather than a manual for preservation.

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