Research Catalog

Title

Hamburgers in paradise : the stories behind the food we eat / Louise O. Fresco ; translated by Liz Waters.

Author

Fresco, Louise O

Publication

• Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

Waters, Liz

Description

xviii, 542 pages : color illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

For the first time in human history, there is food in abundance throughout the world. More people than ever before are now freed of the struggle for daily survival, yet few of us are aware of how food lands on our plates. Behind every meal you eat, there is a story. Hamburgers in Paradise explains how. In this wise and passionate book, Louise Fresco takes readers on an enticing cultural journey to show how science has enabled us to overcome past scarcities--and why we have every reason to be optimistic about the future. Using hamburgers in the Garden of Eden as a metaphor for the confusion surrounding food today, she looks at everything from the dominance of supermarkets and the decrease of biodiversity to organic foods and BMOs. She casts doubt on many popular claims about sustainability, and takes issue with naive rejections of globalization and the idealization of "true and honest" food. Fresco explores topics such as agriculture in human history, poverty and development, and surplus and obesity. She provides insightful discussions of basic foods such as bread, fish, and meat, and intertwines them with social topics like slow food and other gastronomy movements, the fear of technology and risk, food and climate change, the agricultural landscape, urban food systems, and food in art. The culmination of decades of research, Hamburgers in Paradise provides valuable insights into how our food is produced, how it is consumed, and how we can use the lessons of the past to design food systems to feed all humankind in the future. -- Inside jacket flaps.

Uniform Title

Hamburgers in het paradijs. English

Alternative Title

Hamburgers in het paradijs.

Subject

• Food supply > Social aspects
• Food supply > History
• Food consumption
• Food security

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-518) and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Dutch.

Contents

Introduction: Food -- A Voyage of Discovery -- Paradise: An Exceptional Ecology -- Eve's Temptation: Apple and Hamburger -- Agriculture: A Triumph of Hard Work -- Bread: The Most Iconic of Foods -- Meat: Necessity and Luxury -- Liquid Paradise: Food from Water -- Hairy Apples: The Challenge of Biotechnology -- Homesick for Paradise: "Organic" and "Natural" -- Biodiversity: From Landscape to Gene -- Roast Wolf and Deconstructed Olive: Cooking and Eating as a Worldview -- Paradise on Every Street Corner: Food in the City -- An Embarrassment of Riches: The Food Chain -- A Shrinking Paradise: Back to Scarcity? -- A Paradise within Reach: Sustainable Food Production -- Food: Irresistible and Emotionally Charged -- In Conclusion: Eve's Paradise.

Call Number

JFE 16-6793

ISBN

• 9780691163871 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0691163871 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2015013030
• 40025377571

OCLC

930660531

Author

Fresco, Louise O, author.

Title

Hamburgers in paradise : the stories behind the food we eat / Louise O. Fresco ; translated by Liz Waters.

Publisher

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-518) and index.

Language

Translated from the Dutch.

Added Author

Waters, Liz, translator.

Translation of (work): Fresco, Louise O. Hamburgers in het paradijs.

Other Standard Identifier

40025377571

Research Call Number

JFE 16-6793