Food, Fabio Parasecoli
Food, Fabio Parasecoli
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Food

Author: Fabio Parasecoli

Narrator: Levi Squier

Unabridged: 4 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 05/21/2019


Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rita on July 25, 2020

It's an incredibly broad subject to cover in a succinct primer like this, so there were definitely a lot of places that could have benefitted from more elaboration and thought provokation. It's a good start though. However, what I love most about this series is the wealth of resources via the citati......more

Goodreads review by Apollos on August 06, 2020

In Food, written as part of the MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series, journalist and Professor of Food Studies Fabio Parasecoli gives us a well-rounded summary and description of the current global food system. In seven chapters, we get to read about the different topics related to food, some of whic......more

Goodreads review by Cal on December 13, 2021

just finished up this thorough little overview of food systems, food globalization markets, agricultural behaviors, environmental changes, policy and politics influence in food issues, food security and justice, food(ie) trends, and how technology folds all around this food tapestry. it's published b......more

Goodreads review by Glen on July 27, 2020

The dynamics of food production and distribution, the supply chains, economics, and technologies have all been strained during the COVID pandemic, which makes it an apt time to understand more about all of the above. This book is part of MIT Press's "Essential Knowledge Series" and it touches on all......more