Avocado Anxiety: and Other Stories About Where Your Food Comes From

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A fascinating book full of surprising facts that will force you to reconsider everything you thought you knew about fruit and vegetables.

This isn't pro or anti industry/meat/veggie etc, it simply gives a balanced view of the 'grey' area that most food issues come with.When we come back to look at the early decades of the 21 st Century, the dish that will surely sum up our age is avocado on toast?

In an effort to make sense of the complex food system we are all part of, Louise Gray decides to track the stories of our five-a-day, from farm to fruit bowl, and discover the impact that growing fruits and vegetables has on the planet.

The UK’s most popular fruit is so cheap because it relies on a monoculture built on cheap labour and the clearing of rainforests. As pressure grows via social media to post pictures of food that ticks all the boxes in terms of health and the environment, these food stories from the author of the award-winning The Ethical Carnivore are also a personal story of motherhood and the realisation that nothing is ever perfect. This book avoids the doom and gloom that often comes with discussions around complex problems with our food system. Through visits to farms, interviews with scientists and trying to grow her own, she digs up the dirt behind organic potatoes, greenhouse tomatoes and a glut of courgettes.