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

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She covered UN climate change talks, GM foods and the badger cull during five years as the Environment Correspondent for The Daily Telegraph . I can’t completely take away avocado anxiety – I’m not sure I want to, it is a product of living in our age. A portrait of a food system that has become miraculously proficient at giving us cheap produce whenever we want it but at the expense of so much else. When the water is coming from places suffering water shortages such as parts of Spain and South America this can cause droughts, harming local populations and wildlife.

By turns fascinating, moving and funny, Louise Gray gives readers the knowledge they need to make more informed choices about what to eat. As a nation we do not eat enough fruit and veg (only a third of adults eat the recommended five-a-day), we need to start filling our plates with vegetables from farmers and growers we trust.

Horticulturalists are learning how to make space for nature by growing crops such as lettuce on vertical farms indoors, and leaving wild land for birds and other wildlife. Picked by The Times as one of its environment books of the year, journalist Louise Gray tracks the story of our food from farm to fruit bowl, asking what impact our voracious appetites have on the planet. I think instead we could be educating ourselves about the delicious alternatives and the small ways we can make the food system better. 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.

Established in 2009, Tippermuir seeks to add to the cultural life of Scotland by publishing interesting and worthy books in English and Scots. She has since followed that up with The Cauldron of Life, The Sword of Light, and The Spear of Truth. In a quietly confident manner, Avocado Anxiety makes you think for yourself on matters that can only be described as universally urgent. The UK’s most popular fruit is so cheap because it relies on a monoculture built on cheap labour and the clearing of rainforests.

She covered UN climate change talks, GM foods and the badger cull during five years as the Environment Correspondent for The Daily Telegraph. As consumers we can cut food waste by eating our leftovers and embracing the wonky carrot, we can eat plant proteins like broad beans and grow our own courgettes. A fascinating book full of surprising facts that will force you to reconsider everything you thought you knew about fruit and vegetables. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

I believe that by making the consumer aware we can drive those in power to take seriously the role of food in making our population healthier and our environment more resilient. If our ancestors could time-travel to one location in the present, where would modernity astound them most? Trying to make sense of it, environmental journalist Louise Gray tracks the stories of our five-a-day, from farm to fruit bowl, and discovers the impact that growing fruits and vegetables has on the planet.Louise uses a series of stories and real-world examples to show just how complex even the foods we think of as 'simple' are. As pressure grows to share our healthy, environmentally friendly lives on social media, Avocado Anxiety is also a personal story of motherhood and the realisation that nothing is ever perfect.