Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction And The Future Of Food

Sales and Market Bullets

• An entertaining book with scholarly chops — but not a scholarly tone — about the foods we have loved to death.
• Lost Feast includes chapters covering passenger pigeons, megafauna, the dodo, lab-made meat, the loss of 464 varieties of lettuce, and the history of beekeeping.
• Newman’s debut Speaking in Cod Tongues, received a starred review and praise from Publishers Weekly: “She takes what could have been a bewildering wealth of information and presents it in a straightforward, clear manner with an appealing, conversational tone.”

Audience

• For foodies, natural history buffs, environmentalists.
• Readers of Michael Pollen.
• Fans of Anthony Bourdain’s engaging and edgy way of writing about food and travel.

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