Sublime

The story begins with food itself, moving out to the body, the home, society, city and country, nature and time.

Food is both the substance of life and its deepest metaphor.

By working out how to feed ourselves, we have found our place in the world.

How many of us stop to wonder, for example, about food’s influence over our minds, values, laws, economies, homes, cities and landscapes – even our attitudes towards life and death?

The areas where we most urgently need to invest and invent aren’t technological, they’re human.

Our need to eat once located us: it told us where we belonged. Now that link is broken, how do we find ourselves in the world? How, in particular, do we find that special place we call ‘home’?

One thing that home can’t be, however, is somewhere we can’t eat. Home must be able to sustain life.

For them home was never a building, but rather a carefully curated territory that, because of its lack of farms, fields and fences, went unrecognised by Europeans.