371: We used to eat 6,000 types of plants—now we only eat 9 | Award-winning food journalist Dan Saladino
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The World's Most Endangered Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
Eating to extend ation is a book about the world's rarest foods and why we need to save them. The author fell in love with stories because each one transported her to a different place, she says. T what led you down this path? Why this book? You could have written lots of other books, but why this book? Well, the reason is that i was there to make a radio programme about the citrus harvest. And it was going to be a celebratory programme at meeting lots of farmers. But when i arrived I was told by many of these farmers that the fruit that they had been growing in their ancestors for a thousand years was going to being the last harvest
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