‘Eating to Extinction’ Zoom With Author on Sunday

Join the Desk Book Club for a chat with journalist Dan Saladino.

I’m excited to have our concluding conversation on Dan Saladino’s Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them this Sunday at 1 p.m. EST. The meeting information is after the paywall.

As I finished the book, I thought about how craft beer revived my hometown of Patchogue, New York, as well as what it was like to live through the artisanal boom of Brooklyn in 2000s and early 2010s. Where is that energy now? What did it change about people’s lives, how people eat and live? Has it had a lasting resonance? How is a lasting shift in a relationship to the natural world constructed, and what is the role of a food writer in building it?

I have specific questions for Saladino about how he determined, reported and wove the structure of this vast book, and I hope that readers will come with their own, as well. If you haven’t read the book, no worries: Please join us to listen in on the conversation, if you’d like.

If you’re not quite ready to join us for this talk, look ahead to the 2025 picks that you can pick up from next year’s bookstore partner, D.C.’s Bold Fork Books. There’s 20% off each title with the paid subscriber code in the header.