Josh Schonwald - The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches from the Future of Food

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Start: 06/14/2012 6:00 pm

End: 06/14/2012 7:00 pm

In The Taste of Tomorrow, journalist Josh Schonwald sets out on a journey to investigate the future of food. His quest takes him across the country and into farms and labs around the globe. From Alice Waters' microfarm to a Pentagon facility that has quietly shaped American supermarkets, "The Taste of Tomorrow" is a rare, behind-the-scenes glimpse at what we eat today--and what we'll be eating tomorrow.

In this lively and fascinating book, Schonwald explains how new foods happen; why some foods explode on the scene virtually overnight while others take decades--and countless failures--to catch on. Schonwald introduces us to a motley group of mad scientists, entrepreneurs, renegade farmers, and food engineers who are revolutionizing the food we eat. We meet the Harvard-trained pediatrician who wants to change the way humans raise fish; a New York chef who believes he's found the next great ethnic cuisine; a lawyer-turned-nanotechnologist who believes he can solve human nutritional needs without using food.

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