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Meals to come : a history of the future of food / Warren Belasco.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Belasco, Warren James.
- Series:
- California studies in food and culture ; 16.
- California studies in food and culture ; 16
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food supply.
- Food--History.
- Food.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (397 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- PART I. DEBATING THE FUTURE OF FOOD: THE BATTLE OF THE THINK TANKS
- PART II. IMAGINING THE FUTURE OF FOOD: SPECULATIVE FICTION
- PART III. THINGS TO COME: THREE CORNUCOPIAN FUTURES
- POSTSCRIPT
- NOTES
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-331) and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786611752552
- 9781281752550
- 128175255X
- 9780520940468
- 0520940466
- 9780520904002
- 0520904001
- OCLC:
- 476049727
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