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The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes and thousands more-to the American plate.

Since prehistory, humans have braved sharp knives, fire, and grindstones to transform raw ingredients into something delicious-or at least edible. Tools shape what we eat, but they have also transformed how we consume, and how we think about, our food.

Each chapter in this startlingly original debut tells the story of a single dish and character, at once capturing the zeitgeist of the Midwest, the rise of foodie culture, and delving into the ways food creates community and a sense of identity. A quirky, hilarious, and vividly sensory story.

Filled with colorful anecdotes, photographs, and recipes, this book offers an accessible introduction to the artisanal food movement, and vicarious living for armchair travelers, food lovers, and others who might won­der what it would be like to drop everything and start an olive farm, or who yearn to make and sell their own clotted cream butter.

In a groundbreaking theory of our origins, Wrangham shows that our adaptation to using fire, and resultant shift from raw to cooked foods, was the key factor in human evolution.

"Eating is not only a political act, it is also a cultural act that reaffirms one's identity and worldview," Enrique Salmón writes in our June book. “Eating the Landscape" is an essential resource for ethnobotanists, food sovereignty proponents, and advocates of the local food and slow food movements.

In this groundbreaking and deeply personal book, Ron Cooper shares everything he knows about this storied, culturally rich, and now hugely in-demand spirit, along with 40 recipes.

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