"In 1971, Frances Moore Lappe's Diet for a Small Planet sparked a revolution in how we think about hunger, alerting millions to the hidden environmental and social impacts of our food choices. Now, nearly four decades later, her daughter, Anna Lappe, picks up the conversation. I…
The food system has a hidden cost : climate change. Our tangled web of globalized food - from Pop-Tarts packaged in Tennessee and eaten in Texas to pork chops raised in Poland on feed from Brazil and shipped to South Korea - is connected to as much as one third of total greenhou…
"In 1971, Frances Moore Lappe's Diet for a Small Planet sparked a revolution in how we think about hunger, alerting millions to the hidden environmental and social impacts of our food choices. Now, nearly four decades later, her daughter, Anna Lappe, picks up the conversation. I…
A crucial piece of the conversation about climate change, Diet for a Hot Planet makes the disturbing connection between food production and global warming.
"In 1971, Frances Moore Lappe's Diet for a Small Planet sparked a revolution in how we think about hunger, alerting millions to the hidden environmental and social impacts of our food choices. Now, nearly four decades later, her daughter, Anna Lappe, picks up the conversation. I…
Eating in Theory draws on snapshots of eating practices to shift a range of fundamental intellectual reflexes. The terms that shape current social science and humanities theorizing are marked by a hierarchical version of "the human" in which thinking is celebrated and eating is …
"Eating in Theory draws on snapshots of eating practices to shift a range of fundamental intellectual reflexes. The terms that shape current social science and humanities theorizing are marked by a hierarchical version of "the human" in which thinking is celebrated and eating is…
Empirical Philosophy -- Being -- Knowing -- Doing -- Relating -- Intellectual Ingredients.
Empirical Philosophy -- Being -- Knowing -- Doing -- Relating -- Intellectual Ingredients. "Eating in Theory draws on snapshots of eating practices to shift a range of fundamental intellectual reflexes. The terms that shape current social science and humanities theorizing are m…
As we taste, chew, swallow, digest, and excrete, our foods transform us, while our eating, in its turn, affects the wider earthly environment. In Eating in Theory Annemarie Mol takes inspiration from these transformative entanglements to rethink what it is to be human. Drawing o…
"Annmarie Mol reassess notions of human being and becoming by thinking through the activity of eating, showing how eating is a lively practice bound up with our identities, actions, politics, and senses of belonging in the world."--
How Food Works is your own friendly nutritionist, on hand to debunk common food myths and give you the answers to those pressing questions with easy-to-swallow information. Today's media is full of new discoveries about food - red wine is good for your heart, caffeine will raise…
