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    Food Routes: Growing Bananas in Iceland and Other Tales from the Logistics of Eating
    Food Routes: Growing Bananas in Iceland and Other Tales from the Logistics of Eating
    Food Routes: Growing Bananas in Iceland and Other Tales from the Logistics of Eating
    Audiobook8 hours

    Food Routes: Growing Bananas in Iceland and Other Tales from the Logistics of Eating

    Written by Robyn S. Metcalfe

    Narrated by Donna Postel

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    About this audiobook

    In Food Routes, Robyn Metcalfe explores an often-overlooked aspect of the global food system: how food moves from producer to consumer. She finds that the food supply chain is adapting to our increasingly complex demands for both personalization and convenience-but, she says, it won't be an easy ride.

    Networked, digital tools will improve the food system but will also challenge our relationship to food in anxiety-provoking ways. It might not be easy to transfer our affections from verdant fields of organic tomatoes to high-rise greenhouses tended by robots. And yet, argues Metcalfe-a cautious technology optimist-technological advances offer opportunities for innovations that can get better food to more people in an increasingly urbanized world.

    Metcalfe follows a slice of New York pizza and a club sandwich through the food supply chain; considers local foods, global foods, and food deserts; investigates the processing, packaging, and storage of food; explores the transportation networks that connect farm to plate; and explains how food can be tracked using sensors and the Internet of Things. Future food may be engineered, networked, and nearly independent of crops grown in fields. New technologies can make the food system more efficient-but at what cost to our traditionally close relationship with food?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMar 5, 2019
    ISBN9781977345882
    Food Routes: Growing Bananas in Iceland and Other Tales from the Logistics of Eating

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    • 1/5
      Really boring book, even to me. One star is enough.
    • 2/5
      Who'd have thought a book all about food logistics would be so boring? OK, shut up.It just never seemed to go anywhere. It felt like any paragraph could have been interchanged with any other. It all just read to me like a bunch of random sentences about food logistics.I also have a pet peeve about the phrase "farm to plate", and phrases about food getting to your "plate", and some variation of this appeared on nearly every page. People rarely eat off of plates anymore.Oh, and the subtitle: "Growing Bananas in Iceland and Other Tales from the Logistics of Eating." I don't remember a thing about growing bananas in Iceland. If it was mentioned, it was short enough for me to zone out over.