Meals to come : a history of the future of food /
By: Belasco, Warren James
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Series: California studies in food and culture ; 16.Publisher: Berkeley, Ca. : University of California Press, c2006Description: xiii, 358 p., [22] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0520241517 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780520241510:; 9780520241510; 0520250354 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780520250352.Subject(s): Food habits -- History![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-331) and index.
Pt. I. Debating the future of food: the battle of the think tanks. The stakes in our steaks ; The debate: Will the world run out of food? ; The deep structure of the debate. -- Pt. II. Imagining the future of food: speculative fiction. The utopian caveat ; Dystopias. -- Pt. III. Things to come: three cornucopian futures. The classical future ; The modernist future ; The recombinant future.
In this provocative and lively addition to his acclaimed writings on food, Warren Nelasco takes a sweeping look at a little-explored yet timely topic: humanity's deep-rooted anxiety about the future of food.