Meals to Come
eBook - PDF

Meals to Come

A History of the Future of Food

  1. 393 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Meals to Come

A History of the Future of Food

About this book

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 explores a fascinating array of material ranging over two hundred years—from futuristic novels and films to world's fairs, Disney amusement parks, supermarket and restaurant architecture, organic farmers' markets, debates over genetic engineering, and more. Placing food issues in this deep historical context, he provides an innovative framework for understanding the future of food today—when new prophets warn us against complacency at the same time that new technologies offer promising solutions. But will our grandchildren's grandchildren enjoy the cornucopian bounty most of us take for granted? This first history of the future to put food at the center of the story provides an intriguing perspective on this question for anyone—from general readers to policy analysts, historians, and students of the future—who has wondered about the future of life's most basic requirement.

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Edition
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Topic
Art

Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. Preface
  3. PART I. DEBATING THE FUTURE OF FOOD
  4. 1 The Stakes in Our Steaks
  5. 2 The Debate: Will the World Run Out of Food?
  6. 3 The Deep Structure of the Debate
  7. PART II. IMAGINING THE FUTURE OF FOOD
  8. 4 The Utopian Caveat
  9. 5 Dystopias
  10. PART III. THINGS TO COME
  11. 6 The Classical Future
  12. 7 The Modernist Future
  13. 8 The Recombinant Future
  14. Postscript
  15. Notes
  16. Selected Bibliography
  17. Acknowledgments
  18. Index