How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy

How the World Eats: A Global Food PhilosophyAn exploration of how we grow, make, buy and eat our food around the world that proposes a global philosophy of food; from the Sunday Times bestselling author of How the World Thinks. How we live is shaped by how we eat. You can see this in the vastly different approaches to growing, preparing and eating food around the world from the hunter gatherer Hadza in Tanzania whose traditionally sustainable lifestyle is being squeezed by a crowded planet, and

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