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    The lost supper : searching for the future of food in the flavors of the past / Taras Grescoe.
    by Grescoe, Taras, author.
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    Vancouver ; Berkeley ; London : Greystone Books : David Suzuki Institute, [2023]
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  • Food -- History.
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  • Food habits -- History.
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  • Cooking -- History.
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    1771647639 (hardcover)
    9781771647632 (hardcover)
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    327 pages ; 24 cm
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    Prologue -- Montreal : kitchen dreams -- Mexico City : the secret of Axayacatl -- Ossabaw Island : some pig -- Cádiz : the quintessence of putresence -- Yorkshire Dales : hard cheese -- Puglia : the death of the immortals -- Cappadocia : lost and found -- Saint-Jean-Sur-Richelieu : bread alone -- Miʹwerʹla : the cooked and the raw -- Epilogue.
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    "Acclaimed author Taras Grescoe introduces readers to the surprising and forgotten flavors whose revival is captivating food-lovers around the world: ancient sourdough bread last baked by Egyptian pharaohs; raw-milk farmhouse cheese from critically endangered British dairy cattle; ham from Spanish pata negra pigs that have been foraging on acorns on a secluded island since before the United States was a nation; and olive oil from wild olive trees uniquely capable of resisting quickly evolving pests and modern pathogens. From Ancient Roman fish sauce to Aztec caviar to the long-thought-extinct silphium, The Lost Supper is a deep dive into the latest frontier of global gastronomy--the archaeology of taste. Through vivid writing, history, and first-hand culinary experience, Grescoe sets out a provocative case: in order to save these foods, he argues, we've got to eat them"--
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