Meals to Come : A History of the Future of Food /

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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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Belasco, Warren James (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Food supply.
Food.
COOKING > History.
COOKING > General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Food Science.
Aliments > Histoire.
Food > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Debating the future of food: the battle of the think tanks. The stakes in our steaks ; The debate: Will the world run out of food? ; The deep structure of the debate.
  • pt. II. Imagining the future of food: speculative fiction. The utopian caveat ; Dystopias.
  • pt. III. Things to come: three cornucopian futures. The classical future ; The modernist future ; The recombinant future.

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