Lost Feast

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Featured on NPR’s Science Friday SciFri Book Club
Starred review from Foreword Reviews: “Edifying and entertaining… Never didactic and cautiously optimistic, Newman recognizes that there is hard work ahead to recalibrate the North American diet. She builds a compelling case for us human superpredators to rethink our food choices, and to be healthier for the environment and our fellow inhabitant species. Lost Feast is enjoyable reading about a serious topic.”
Winner of 2020 Taste Canada Awards, 2020 Science Writers & Communicators of Canada award, 2019 Foreword Indies Award
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.

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.