Daniel Stone, "The Food Explorer"
March 27, 2018
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as posted by the channelDaniel Stone discusses his book, "The Food Explorer", at Politics and Prose on 2/24/18.
A botanist with an insatiable appetite for discovery, David Fairchild (1869-1954) worked as a plant explorer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and introduced more than 200,000 plants to the United States. His imports included new varieties of cotton and Japanese cherry trees, but his focus was food. In this lively biography, Stone, a staff writer for National Geographic and a veteran traveler himself, follows Fairchild’s footsteps through Europe, Asia, and South America, recreating the adventures that brought us mangoes from India, avocados from Chile, and pomegranates from Malta, along with many other delicacies that revolutionized the American diet and that we now take for granted, such as pistachios, nectarines, and kale.
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