Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal: A Food Science Nutrition History BookFrom the #1 New York Times best selling author and pioneering journalist, an expansive look at how history has been shaped by humanitys appetite for food, farmland, and the money behind it alland how a better future is within reach The story of humankind is usually told as one of technological innovation and economic influenceof arrowheads and atomic bombs, settlers and stock markets. But behind it all there is an even more fundamental driver: food.