Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World

Edible Economics is not a book about food economics. Instead, it uses food as a basis for discussing different economics principles - in particular those that go against common neoclassical economics. The author grew up in Korea when travel to other countries was nearly impossible to travel to other countries. They had strong feelings of local food culture (and consumed huge amounts of garlic.)

He then traveled to Britain where there the food is pretty much awful. With globalization, Brits were quick to adopt things from other countries. Without the strong entrenched food, there was a greater willingness to adopt new things.

There are other discussions on things such as chocolate and workforce changes. There is criticism of developed countries encouraged developing countries to go through paths that primarily benefit the developed countries. (Even as these countries often went through protectionist paths.) Globalization and obsolescence of jobs is something that does occur. The intelligencia encourages people to just deal with it - until their jobs are the ones that are going away. 

There are many other side handed criticisms of the "accepted norms" in economics and society. It is all presented in a brief, acceptable format that works brilliantly.