Where has all the good food gone? When did tomatoes lose their taste? Why do supermarket apples bear little resemblance to homegrown ones? There is more food, more cookbooks and tv cooking shows than ever, but there is less variety and less taste, and some common foods are actually threatened with extinction. Why?
Interweaving mouth-watering memories of her own gastronomic upbringing - and long-forgotten recipes with cool-eyed scientific reportage, this brilliant book sounds the alarm for all who care deeply about food.
The book also includes beautiful descriptions of mouth-watering food, as well as recipes and great anecdotes about the author's childhood and foods from her past. Mallet takes several popular foods and traces their history and current predicament.
