Eating to extinction : the world's rarest foods and why we need to save them
by Saladino, Dan, 1970- (Author)
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"Over the past several decades, globalization has homogenized what we eat, and done so ruthlessly. The numbers are stark: Of the roughly six thousand different plants once consumed by human beings, only nine remain major staples today. Just three of these-rice, wheat, and corn-now provide fifty perc... Full description