Day: September 26, 2021

Once, we ate 6,000 plant species. Now it is only nine

Within five minutes of my desk can be found: an Italian delicatessen, a Vietnamese pho house, a pizzeria, two Chinese, a Thai, and an Indian “with a contemporary twist” (don’t knock it till you’ve tried it). Can such bounty be extended over the Earth? Yes, it can. It’s already happening. And in what amounts to