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How Food Can Save the World

By: Carolyn Steel

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Paperback | 8 April 2021

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This visionary book about food - and how it shapes every aspect of our lives - points the way to a good life and a more sustainable future

How we search for, make and consume food has defined human history. It transforms our bodies and homes, our politics and our trade, our landscapes and our climate. But by forgetting our culinary heritage and relying on cheap, intensively produced food, we have drifted into a way of life that threatens our planet and ourselves.

What if there were a more sustainable way to eat and live? Drawing on many disciplines, as well as stories of the farmers, designers and economists who are remaking our relationship with food, this inspiring and deeply thoughtful book gives us a provocative and exhilarating vision for change, and points the way to a better future.

*Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2020*

About the Author

Carolyn Steel is a leading thinker on food and cities. Her first book, Hungry City , received international acclaim, establishing her as an influential voice in a wide variety of fields across academia, industry and the arts. It won the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction and was chosen as a BBC Food Programme book of the year. A London-based architect, academic and writer, Carolyn has lectured at the University of Cambridge, London Metropolitan University, Wageningen University and the London School of Economics and is in international demand as a speaker.

Her 2009 TED talk has received more than one million views.

Industry Reviews

'A visionary look at how quality food should replace money as the new world currency'
Tim Spector

'Hugely ambitious and beautifully written...destined to become a modern classic'
Bee Wilson

'Utterly brilliant'
Thomasina Miers

A vital call for us to rediscover the way that food binds us to each other and to the natural world, and in doing so find new ways of living
Christopher Kissane Guardian

Steel's ideas have become a matter of urgency
Clare Saxby Times Literary Supplement

Steel offsets the obviously weighty subject matter with a lightness of touch and twinkling eye for luminous details... an unambiguously essential read
George Reynolds Daily Telegraph

The beauty of food is that it is so many things at once: necessity and treat, nature and artifice, the subject of science, philosophy, etiquette and art. The book is accordingly multiple in its themes, an all-you-can-eat buffet of thoughts and facts about food...a brave and ambitious book
Observer

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