Cultured
How Ancient Foods Can Feed Our Microbiome
$48.26
- Hardcover
304 pages
- Release Date
28 February 2019
Summary
Journalist Katherine Harmon Courage shows readers why and how we should be eating for the 300 trillion bacteria, fungi, and Archaea our bodies depend on to keep us healthy.
A revealing look at the 300 trillion microorganisms that keep us healthy-and the foods they need to thrive
These days, probiotic yogurt and other “gut-friendly” foods line supermarket shelves. But what’s the best way to feed our all-important microbiome-and what is a microbiome, anyway?
In this enga…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781101905289 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 110190528X |
| Author: | Katherine Harmon Courage |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 28 February 2019 |
| Weight: | 521g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
Critics Review
“From Greenland to Greece, Courage explores the ancient gut-friendly foods that have become integral parts of many food cultures, and offers suggestions on how to diversify the kinds of foods we feed our microbiome.”
—NPR
“Deeply researched but conversational and even funny, Cultured is the guide we need to make sense of the hope and hype of microbiome science and what it means for our everyday lives.”
—Maryn McKenna, author of Big Chicken, Superbug, and Beating Back the Devil
“This enthralling book sounds the clarion call to end the senseless onslaught of warfare waged against our microbial symbionts. It is time to embrace the world within us and feed the ferment that keeps us happy and healthy.”
—Ken Albala, Professor of History University of the Pacific
Katherine Harmon Courage
Katherine Harmon Courage is a contributing editor for Scientific American. Her journalism has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Wired, National Geographic, and Popular Science. Courage has been reporting on the microbiome since 2009.
Her first book, Octopus!: The Most Mysterious Creature in the Sea, was published in October 2013. Her writing was also included in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013. She resides in Colorado.
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