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Book Discussion with Author Topic: The importance of foods we love, but what it means to lose them Book: "Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love" Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi explores the history and cultural importance of our most beloved tastes while providing a wake-up call to the homogenization that is threatening the diversity of our food supply. Discover how the foods we enjoy are endangered by genetic erosion -- a slow and steady loss of diversity in what we grow and eat. Shockingly, 95% of the world's calories now come from only thirty species. Sethi draws on interviews with those whose firsthand knowledge of our food reveals the multiple and interconnected reasons for this loss, and its consequences for our health, traditions, and culture. Author: Simran Sethi is a journalist and an associate at the University of Melbourne's Sustainable Society Institute and the former host of the PBS Quest series on science and sustainability. She was the national environmental correspondent for NBC News, the anchor/writer of Sundance Channel's first dedicated environmental programming and the host of the Emmy Award-winning PBS documentary A School in the Woods.