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Food (Paperback)
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Food (Paperback)
Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
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Loot Price R336
Discovery Miles 3 360
You Save R84 (20%)
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A consumer's guide to the food system, from local to global: our
part as citizens in the interconnected networks, institutions, and
organizations that enable our food choices. Everybody eats. We may
even consider ourselves experts on the topic, or at least Instagram
experts. But are we aware that the shrimp in our freezer may be
farmed and frozen in Vietnam, the grapes in our fruit bowl shipped
from Chile, and the coffee in our coffee maker grown in Nicaragua,
roasted in Germany, and distributed in Canada? Whether we know it
or not, every time we shop for food, cook, and eat, we connect
ourselves to complex supply networks, institutions, and
organizations that enable our food choices. Even locavores may not
know the whole story of the produce they buy at the farmers market.
In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, food
writer and scholar Fabio Parasecoli offers a consumer's guide to
the food system, from local to global. Parasecoli describes a
system made up of open-ended, shifting, and unstable networks
rather than well-defined chains; considers healthy food and the
contradictory advice about it consumers receive; discusses food
waste and the implications for sustainability; explores food
technologies (and "culinary luddism"); and examines hunger and food
insecurity in both developing and developed countries. Parasecoli
reminds us that we are not only consumers but also citizens, and as
citizens we have more power to improve the food system than we do
by our individual food choices.
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