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

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Louise is passionate about environmental issues, increasingly focusing on how individuals can make a difference through the choices they make, such as the food we eat. 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. However, if the vegetables have been flown in by air freight, such as asparagus from Peru (18kg CO2e per kg), it can be up there with steak. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

By turns fascinating, moving and funny, Louise Gray gives readers the knowledge they need to make more informed choices about what to eat. Born in the Shetlands in 1978, he studied History and Philosophy of Law at the University of Edinburgh, winning the Lord President Cooper Memorial Prize. 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.

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. In recent years, she has written for The Sunday Times , Scottish Field , the Guardian and The Spectator , among others.

She has since followed that up with The Cauldron of Life, The Sword of Light, and The Spear of Truth.

Avocado Anxiety encourages understanding the science behind one's food and demonstrates the global impact of every meal. In a quietly confident manner, Avocado Anxiety makes you think for yourself on matters that can only be described as universally urgent. For her second book Avocado Anxiety And Other Stories About Where Your Food Comes From, the author explores the role of fruit and vegetables in shaping our environment. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. 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.