Lesung – Ohne Mücken keine Schokolade

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Are we cultivating the plants or are they cultivating us?
Who thinks of plants when it comes to historical events? For example, the emergence of empires, migrations of peoples or famines? Does the potato come to mind?

when we think of industrialization? After reading this book, perhaps yes! Biological facts are not neglected either, from the cocoa bean, which needs a special mosquito for pollination, to the history of the banana, which once had seeds and now only makes clones. Through selection and breeding, we have changed certain plants over the centuries, but they have also changed us - as humanity and as a society.

- How plants influence not only our diet, but our entire way of life.

- From apples to lemons: amazing knowledge in witty plant portraits.

Sarah M. Schmidt, born in 1982 in Marburg, holds a doctorate in biology and has been working as an advisor for food security and agricultural research at the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Bonn since 2020. "No mosquitoes, no chocolate" is her first book. She lives in Cologne.