ROBERT Frost gave us so little choice when he wrote: “Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice.” What about plague, flood, zombies, killer robots, ocean acidification, nuclear accident and alien invasion? Fortunately, in these latter days before climate collapse, our apocalyptic literature comes in a grim smörgåsbord of flavours.
And now we have an apocalyptic novel – Land of Milk and Honey is the haunting story of an ambitious chef desperate to keep cooking even as 98% of the commercial crops fail.
The narrator, unnamed, is in her twenties when a mysterious smog arises from Iowa and blocks out the sun across the world. “Biodiversity fell. Wildlife and livestock perished for lack of feed,” she remembers. “No olives, no quails, no grapes ... no…
