Flour Fixated
Bee Wilson, 24 September 2020
Amber Waves: The Extraordinary Biography of Wheat
by Catherine Zabinski.
Chicago, 246 pp., £18, August 2020,978 0 226 55371 9 Show More
by Catherine Zabinski.
Chicago, 246 pp., £18, August 2020,
“... near universal marker of economic development.The human relationship with wheat is the subject of Catherine Zabinski’s short book Amber Waves, which presents itself as a ‘biography’ of the grain, although she reminds us on page three that ‘wheat isn’t a person’ in case we were liable to be confused. ... ”