I love Sarah Lohman's writing and I love food and I love its history and I should have gone into this knowing it was going to be sad because OF COURSE a history of endangered food in the US is also going to be a history of genocide and enslavement and poor choices in the name of maximizing profit.

The depressing point that food probably tasted better before we started selectively breeding for "things that can be shipped across the coutnry" over "taste" is particularly frustrating.

And the fact that Lohman manages to come out holding all those nuances and making me feel, more than anything else, hungry for finding new and interesting heirloom foods was the best part.