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Dispatches from the Future of Food
Harper
April 2012
On Sale: April 10, 2012
304 pages
ISBN: 0061804215
EAN: 9780061804212
Kindle: B007ED2Y78
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
A fascinating look at the people, trends, and technologies
transforming the food of today and tomorrow In The Taste of Tomorrow, journalist Josh Schonwald sets out
on a journey to investigate the future of food. His quest
takes him across the country and into farms and labs around
the globe. From Alice Waters' microfarm to a Pentagon
facility that has quietly shaped American supermarkets, The
Taste of Tomorrow is a rare, behind-the-scenes glimpse at
what we eat today—and what we'll be eating tomorrow. Schonwald introduces us to a motley group of mad scientists,
entrepreneurs, renegade farmers, and food engineers who are
revolutionizing the food we eat. We meet the Harvard-trained
pedia-trician who wants to change the way humans raise fish;
a New York chef who believes he's found the next great
ethnic cuisine; a lawyer-turned-nanotechnologist who
believes he can solve human nutritional needs without using
food. In this lively and fascinating book, Schonwald explains how
new foods happen; why some foods explode on the scene
virtually overnight while others take decades—and countless
failures—to catch on. And he doesn't shy away from
controversy. Although the book begins as a simple search for
"the salad, meat, seafood, and pad Thai of the future,"
Schonwald becomes increasingly focused on finding
environmentally friendly foods of the future. Ultimately, he
comes to believe that emerging scientific
breakthroughs—genetic engineering, nanotechnology, food
processing—are essential to feeding the globe's expanding
(and hungry) population.
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