Eating to Extinction

An inspiring account of endangered foods and food cultures across the planet. Everyone who cares about what they eat will want to know its stories.

Harold McGee

A rallying cry to us all to protect the world's diversity before it's too late. But this is also a book filled with optimism; it captures the energy of a global movement of people dedicating their lives to saving the plants, the animals, the flavours and the food knowledge we must preserve.

Alice Waters

This is an enthralling tour of some the world's most endangered foods... Saladino marshals a galvanising array of evidence for what we stand to lose

Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller

We all need to pay more attention to what we are (and are no longer) eating... Dan Saladino inspires us to believe that turning the tide is still possible.

Yotam Ottolenghi

A fascinating journey across the fast disappearing diversity of our foods, which we ignore at our peril - a brilliant read.

Tim Spector

Dan Saladino's brilliant book answers the questions we forgot to ask, and highlights the incredible diversity we stand to lose. A genuine masterpiece and a call to arms. Everyone who loves food and cooking should read this.

Gill Meller

An eloquent call to arms... inspiring and superbly researched.

Geraldene Holt, Chair of the Jane Grigson Trust Award

For anyone interested in Darwin, world power, and life itself, read on.

Cerys Matthews

This inspiring and urgent book is one of the few food books that has ever given me goosebumps... A love letter to the huge diversity of foods enjoyed by human beings, but it is also a call to arms to preserve that diversity and strangeness against the onslaught of a globalised industrial food system... It is a story full of both loss and hope.

Bee Wilson

Dan Saladino writes about global food culture as urgently and compellingly as he broadcasts on The Food Programme. He makes a brilliant case that the diversity of our food culture is inextricably linked to the biodiversity of our environment, and therefore the future of our food IS the future of our planet.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

How lucky we are that Dan Saladino has been able to tell these stories... This is the most important book about food that I have read for a long time... Beautifully written and without hyperbole.

Stephen Harris

One of the wonders of the world is the rich diversity of its food, but diversity is disappearing as many traditional foods are becoming endangered. Dan Saladino make a fascinating case for why we all need to care about this.

Thomasina Miers

This is a poignant and urgent read, it gets to the heart of storytelling because its threads the one thing that connects us all, our relationships to food... Dip into this book immediately, just don't do it on an empty stomach.

Alys Fowler

Essential reading for those with a profound interest in the culture, history and anthropology of what, how and why we eat. It's completely absorbing, enlightening and a necessary addition to every bookshelf.

Richard Corrigan

A feast of research and information [and] a digestible collection of beautiful stories... A very important book.

Valentine Warner

I love this book, not only is it a treasure trove of knowledge, stories and ideas, it's a call to us all to save foods, flavours and our diversity. It's important and timely. I wish the whole world could read it.

Raymond Blanc

[An] excellent and valuable book.

Colin Tudge, Literary Review

A real attention-grabber, an exceptionally wide-ranging, informative clarion call... As much an inspiring guide to the pioneering individuals, indigenous groups, scientists, and food producers who are championing the world's rich food heritage, as a warning about what threatens it.

Joanna Blythman, BBC Good Food Magazine

Packed full of knowledge about a host of ingredients that you probably didn't even know existed, Eating to Extinction captures the urgency (and cost) of heading towards a future that is less nutritionally diverse.

Gege Li, New Scientist

Packed with breathtaking facts... Saladino moves seamlessly from the political...to the personal... Let's hope that Eating to Extinction can change the world.

Antonia Windsor, Mail on Sunday

Saladino offers many wonderful vignettes of indigenous food cultures.

Economist

Eating to Extinction operates on a parallel time scales, as a polemic on the urgent need for action on agricultural diversity, and as a deeply researched, if accessible, history of food and drink production... Its satisfactions come from Saladino's ear for a human story and the breadth of the landscapes, and ecosystems, it covers... Saladino's study is immersive, evocative on a planetary scale, and appropriately so if we are to consider how best to protect the planet's resources.

Niki Segnit, Times Literary Supplement

The joy of this excellent book is Saladino's journalistic eye for detail...and his optimism.

Club Oenologique, *Christmas Gift Guide 2021*

A book of wonders that celebrates diversity on the plate.

Bee Wilson, Sunday Times, *Books of the Year*

Saladino's reporting is impressively thorough... he has visited a dizzying array of remote locations to gather the stories within these pages... I predict that Eating to Extinction will prove a valuable archive of these tales in the years to come.

Sophie Yeo, Resurgence & Ecology

A brilliantly written book, weaving together scientific, historical and environmental information with first-hand reporting, this is a powerful account of the threat to some of the world's most remarkable foods and the people who produce them

Guardian