Bread wine chocolate illuminates not only what it means to recognize the importance of the foods we love but also what it means to lose them award winning journalist simran sethi reveals how the foods we enjoy are endangered by genetic erosion a slow and steady loss of diversity in what we grow and eat. Bread wine chocolate the slow loss of foods we love by simran sethi bread wine chocolate book read 132 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers in the last century we have lived and eaten through the mo. Bread wine chocolate illuminates not only what it means to recognize the importance of the foods we love but also what it means to lose them award winning journalist simran sethi reveals how the foods we enjoy are endangered by genetic erosion a slow and steady loss of diversity in what we grow and eat. This is an edited excerpt from bread wine chocolate the slow loss of foods we love reprinted with permission by harperone a division of harpercollinspublishers the standard american diet is with a few notable exceptions a supersized version of what we ate 40 odd years ago made up of mostly grains fats oils and animal based proteins. Bread wine chocolate the slow loss of foods we love by simran sethi book review a heartfelt lament for the homogenisation of our taste buds