Future of Food

In France, food norms are powerful and cohesive forces, while in the US food is simply a whirlwind of chaos.

According to him, the word “natural” has become a “sort of a secular stand-in for a generalized understanding of goodness, which in religion you’d call holiness, or purity, or something like that. “Nature,” with a capital N, [has taken] the place of God. In a secular society, we don’t look to religions to tell us what to eat or how to heal ourselve

Eating seasonally is about being present – weaving yourself into the earth you inhabit.

Central has proven that when the flora, fauna and funga that grow together share a plate together, the resulting flavors can be extraordinary. How can we get the wider world to think about what we eat in a way where all the pieces fit together within a balanced ecological puzzle, not just prizing certain ingredients or ones that are easy to produce

Seeing the country laid out in that way, its biodiversity charted on a menu, the place I had been living in or traveling around for eight years at that point, was revealing. It allowed me to pull all those scattered fragments of the previous years together and visualize their connections. To understand this idea, is to see gastronomy less as a col