Mark Bittman

And it came out in the middle of COVID.

So, of course, like everything else, it sank like a—what's the expression?

Sank without a trace.

Yeah.

But I really enjoyed working on that, and I think it's well-written.

It's good.

I'm happy about it.

I'm satisfied with it.

And I'd like to do something else like that.

I mean, I did a lot of research and I think put it together in a way that is in my, what I hope is usual style, very straightforward, candid, muscular, it's sometimes said, which means you don't use a lot of flowery adjectives, adverbs, metaphors.

I don't do that stuff mostly.

I tend to write like I talk, which is semi-articulately because I'm better on the page because you can fix stuff.

Hemingway-esque.

Yeah, I hope.

Yeah.

Was it the subject or was it the— The subject is—I mean, it's fascinating.

The history of agriculture, humans and food is fascinating.

And, you know, I sort of blitzed through the first, I don't know,

Well, 200,000 years.

Well, they do the first 200,000 years in seconds, but then the history of agriculture from 10,000 years ago until the real agricultural revolution, I cover that.