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Tells the history of how we made food through the ages, the tools we invented, and how we got to where we are. Fun and packed with trivia. I'll never look at my kitchen the same way again.

I love David Graeber, and this was an interesting book, unlike most things I've read of his. It's a shame he couldn't read the audiobook himself, because the narrator manages to make this sound dull.

Loved it just as much as the previous two books that it builds on.

Notes:

New planets, new forms of alien intelligence.
The corvids were my favorite alien species in a while.
Are they a form of AI? Can AI be sentient? Are any of us? Questions that loom especially large this year.
Second book looking at the simulation hypothesis that I've read this year.
Liff's story is heartbreaking.
Decanting the swarm intelligence from book 2 into a single person named Miranda is a brilliant solution to the problem of how to address the "we".
The eventual reveal again comes with a twist and a second, even better reveal. How does Tchaikovsky do this?

The extraterrestrials make this feel less like a normal Tackleford story. Onion Lem is a right good laugh once you get to know him.