Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World
Oceans of Grain: Scott Reynolds Nelson (Basic, $40, 356 pages) World food prices are currently affected by the war in Ukraine, which is sometimes called the breadbasket of the world. The importance of the wheat trade should not be underestimated and a useful tonic to such faulty thinking is Scott Reynolds Nelson’s Oceans of Grain. Nelson argues that wheat – never mind [...]