BRIT Reads Book Club: Never Out of Season by Rob Dunn (hybrid)
Note: this event will be offered in person and online. Join the book club meeting in person at the Oak Conference Room in the BRIT building!
The bananas we eat today aren’t your parents’ bananas: We eat a recognizable, consistent breakfast fruit that was standardized in the 1960s from dozens into one basic banana. But because of that, the banana we love is dangerously susceptible to a pathogen that might wipe them out. That’s the story of our food today: Modern science has brought us produce in perpetual abundance once-rare fruits are seemingly never out of season, and we breed and clone the hardiest, best-tasting varieties of the crops we rely on most. As a result, a smaller proportion of people on earth go hungry today than at any other moment in the last thousand years, and the streamlining of our food supply guarantees that the food we buy, from bananas to coffee to wheat, tastes the same every single time. Our corporate food system has nearly perfected the process of turning sunlight, water and nutrients into food. But our crops themselves remain susceptible to the nature’s fury. Authoritative, urgent, and filled with fascinating heroes and villains from around the world, Never Out of Season is the story of the crops we depend on most and the scientists racing to preserve the diversity of life, in order to save our food supply, and us.
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About FWBG|BRIT Reads
If you love to read and you’re passionate about botany, natural history, sustainability, and other similar topics, then join us for the FWBG|BRIT Reads Book Club. This informal group meets from noon – 1 pm in the Oak Conference Room at BRIT. Bring your lunch and a friend and tell us what you thought about the book of the month. More details at fwbg.org/book-club.
BRIT Reads Book Club: Never Out of Season by Rob Dunn (hybrid)
Note: this event will be offered in person and online. Join the book club meeting in person at the Oak Conference Room in the BRIT building!
The bananas we eat today aren’t your parents’ bananas: We eat a recognizable, consistent breakfast fruit that was standardized in the 1960s from dozens into one basic banana. But because of that, the banana we love is dangerously susceptible to a pathogen that might wipe them out. That’s the story of our food today: Modern science has brought us produce in perpetual abundance once-rare fruits are seemingly never out of season, and we breed and clone the hardiest, best-tasting varieties of the crops we rely on most. As a result, a smaller proportion of people on earth go hungry today than at any other moment in the last thousand years, and the streamlining of our food supply guarantees that the food we buy, from bananas to coffee to wheat, tastes the same every single time. Our corporate food system has nearly perfected the process of turning sunlight, water and nutrients into food. But our crops themselves remain susceptible to the nature’s fury. Authoritative, urgent, and filled with fascinating heroes and villains from around the world, Never Out of Season is the story of the crops we depend on most and the scientists racing to preserve the diversity of life, in order to save our food supply, and us.
Zoom meeting details:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86376128057?pwd=NmtHZmo1bkZ6TjhsVnN5cG9JTStwUT09
Meeting ID: 863 7612 8057
Passcode: 573457
One tap mobile
+13462487799,,86376128057# US (Houston)
+16699006833,,86376128057# US (San Jose)
Dial by your location
+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)
+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)
+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)
Meeting ID: 863 7612 8057
Find your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kc0Y3mFcqa
About FWBG|BRIT Reads
If you love to read and you’re passionate about botany, natural history, sustainability, and other similar topics, then join us for the FWBG|BRIT Reads Book Club. This informal group meets from noon – 1 pm in the Oak Conference Room at BRIT. Bring your lunch and a friend and tell us what you thought about the book of the month. More details at fwbg.org/book-club.