Food Routes
Growing Bananas in Iceland and Other Tales from the Logistics of Eating
$44.29
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
15 December 2020
Summary
The global food supply chain is in the midst of a transformation, and that change is cause to re-imagine a future food system that actually may look very different from our traditional practice of delivering food from farms to tables. Increasingly, farmers are also engineers, crops are grown in enclosed vertical structures, and “clean meat” is raised in laboratories rather than on the range. Technology and Big Data are changing not only the who and the where, but how food gets our plates- foo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262539524 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262539527 |
| Author: | Robyn Metcalfe |
| Publisher: | Mit Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 15 December 2020 |
| Weight: | 274g |
| Dimensions: | 221mm x 143mm |
| Series: | Mit Press |
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About The Author
Robyn Metcalfe
Robyn Metcalfe is the founder and director of Food + City, a UT Austin-based lab that focuses on urban food systems. Her work explores current methods of feeding cities and examines how innovations in agriculture and transportation will reshape the food supply chain. She is also an ultramarathoner, a former writer for Sunset Magazine, and holds a Cordon Bleu certificate in culinary arts.
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