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Keynote
Oxford
13:00 - 13:45 GMT
Friday, 6 January 2023

Eating to Extinction with Dan Saladino

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13:00 - 13:45 GMT
Friday, 6 January 2023

Eating to Extinction with Dan Saladino

Over the long arc of history, humans have eaten extraordinarily diverse diets: thousands of varieties of cultivated crops and wild foods. There is a rich bank of human and culinary history, as well as an important resource for food security and climate resilience, in the world’s rarest foods: from wild honey harvested by the Hadza in Tanzania to windswept wheat on Orkney. These foods could hold the key to our food future, but they are under threat from extinction as the radical homogenisation of the global food supply and our diets continues unabated. Listen to BBC journalist Dan Saladino discuss his new book Eating to Extinction, celebrating the incredible diversity of the world’s food cultures and urging us to find ways to save them before it is too late.