20th century american culture
20th century american food history
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american studies
Author_Warren Belasco
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cooking
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disney amusements parks
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farmers markets
food
food and innovation
food and technology
food security
food supply
food writings
future of food
futuristic films
futuristic novels
gastronomy
genetic engineering
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human anxiety
humanity
organic foods
restaurants
social anxiety
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utopia
Product details
- ISBN 9780520250352
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 18 Oct 2006
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this provocative and lively addition to his acclaimed writings on food, Warren Belasco takes a sweeping look at a little-explored yet timely topic: humanity's deep-rooted anxiety about the future of food. People have expressed their worries about the future of the food supply in myriad ways, and here Belasco explores a fascinating array of material ranging over two hundred years - from futuristic novels and films to world's fairs, Disney amusement parks, supermarket and restaurant architecture, organic farmers' markets, debates over genetic engineering, and more. Placing food issues in this deep historical context, he provides an innovative framework for understanding the future of food today - when new prophets warn us against complacency at the same time that new technologies offer promising solutions. But will our grandchildren's grandchildren enjoy the cornucopian bounty most of us take for granted?
This first history of the future to put food at the center of the story provides an intriguing perspective on this question for anyone - from general readers to policy analysts, historians, and students of the future - who has wondered about the future of life's most basic requirement.
Warren Belasco, Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, is author of Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on the Food Industry and Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel and coeditor of Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies.
