Book Reviews

Saladino is a longtime food journalist for BBC Radio, and it shows. The book reads less like a dense academic text and more like a very well researched travelogue, hopping from a honey hunt in Tanzania to a cheese cave in Albania to a wheat field in Anatolia. I listened to the unabridged audiobook, read…

I read this book right when it came out, in 2015. I did not know it at the time, but this book quietly planted the seed that eventually led me to create this whole site. I picked it up as a casual nerdy read and put it down as a completely different reader, more interested…

This book is part of the Edible series by Reaktion Books, and it’s a quick, punchy read at just around 130 pages. If you’ve ever gotten weirdly excited explaining the nitrogen-fixing magic of heirloom seeds to an unimpressed friend (guilty!), this book will make you feel totally seen. Morris starts way back – think 9,000…