Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love
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"Bread, Wine, and Chocolate, part journey to six continents in pursuit of delicious and endangered tastes, part investigation of the loss of biodiversity from soil to plate, tells the story of what we are losing, how we are losing it, and the inspiring people and places that are bringing back the foods we love. Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi travels from wild coffee forests in Ethiopian to cocoa plantations in Ecuador, from the brewery to the bakery to the temple, in order to meet scientists, farmers, chefs, wine makers, beer brewers, coffee roasters, chocolate connoisseurs, bakers, and many more to explore the reasons behind four developing monodiets in order to savor and save the foods we love."--jacket
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I loved the facts and information, however I did not care for the author making it about her. Maybe I have a hard time with reading journalists, because I'm also having a hard time with the style of ‘How Children Succeed'. (I did enjoy Brain on Fire, but it's supposed to be a memoir.)
At times she comes off as overly pretentious, or trying too hard to present herself. I would say ‘I don't care' many times because she'd describe her trips or what she was wearing. Occasionally these descriptions would be contextual, such as in relating how isolated a place might be or wearing traditional Indian clothing, but other times it was about what she wore to an interview or how she arrived late to a hotel in sweatpants. I also got frustrated with her when she used the word ‘sissy'.
