Lost Feast

Short Description

For readers of Michael Pollan and Anthony Bourdain comes an entertaining yet scholarly book about the foods we have loved to death. From passenger pigeons to megafauna, Newman identifies certain foods vulnerable to human appetite and which foods we’ll struggle to protect in the future.

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.