Never Out of SeasonRob R. Dunn
Never Out of Season
by Rob R. Dunn · first published 2017
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The bananas we eat today aren't our parents' bananas: We eat a recognizable, consistent 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 mo
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Rob Dunn also tells the story of Fordlandia in Never out of Season (https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/031626072X). It’s a quick and interesting read of why we need crop diversity, and has a couple of really interesting cautionary tales. The most enticing one to me was…
on “Fordlandia” ↗- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir - Never Out of Season by Robb Dunn - The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick - Alchemy by Rory Sutherland - Test-Driven Development in Swift by Gio Lodi
on “Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?” ↗…with all its inaccuracies and misleading language felt like it was written in pursuit of a somewhat manipulative agenda. When I got to the end and read the book it's excerpted from it, it made sense: "Never Out of Season: How Having the Food We Want When We Want It Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future". At least the article makes an effort to blame monocultures, but instead of proposing a better model for a more…
on “The Cavendish Banana Will Soon Be Gone” ↗