Meals to Come
Book description
In this provocative and lively addition to his acclaimed writings on food, Warren Belasco takes a sweeping look at a little-explored yet timely topic: humanity's deep-rooted anxiety about the future of food. People have expressed their worries about the future of the food supply in myriad ways, and here Belasco…
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I can’t remember how I discovered this book, but once I cracked open the spine and began reading, I found myself going underline crazy.
The book is a captivating read about the history of the future of food, which is a bit of a tongue twister. How do we look back to the future? Belasco does this by investigating the ways in which we’ve projected our current outlook (from fears to concerns) around what’s to come––a bit of doomsday Tarot card reading if you will.
Despite its pub date, 2006, the book continues to inform. Belasco, a professor emeritus of…
From Larissa's list on people who love to eat (in the future).
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