Lenore Newman, author of “Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food” and is the Director of the Food and Agriculture Institute at the University of the Fraser Valley, and Katie Koralesky, PhD student in the UBC Animal Welfare Program, as they share their reflections on how we can seize the moment to call for a more localized, resilient, and sustainable food system. Join Éliane Verret-Fournier, Manager of Market Development for the BC Ministry of Agriculture, Emma Bryce, an expert in regenerative farming practices and small-scale meat production, Dr. For many local farmers, processors, restaurant-owners, and community workers, COVID-19 has opened a window of opportunity to put control back into the hands of local communities. You will never look at what's on your plate in quite the same way again.Building Resilient Food Systems During COVID-19 and Beyond Eating Close to Home: Fostering Local Food Production During COVID-19Īs COVID-19 outbreaks and restaurant closures have exposed the fragility of the industrial food system, local food producers are stepping in to pick up the slack. Part culinary romp, part environmental wake-up call, Lost Feast makes a critical contribution to our understanding of food security today.

Part culinary romp, part environmental wake-up call, Lost Feast makes a. Whether it's chasing down the luscious butter of local Icelandic cattle or looking at the impacts of modern industrialized agriculture on the range of food varieties we can put in our shopping carts, Newman's bright, intelligent gaze finds insight and humor at every turn.īracketing the chapters that look at the history of our relationship to specific foods, Lenore enlists her ecologist friend and fellow cook, Dan, in a series of 'extinction dinners' designed to recreate meals of the past or to illustrate how we might be eating in the future. Bracketing the chapters that look at the history of our relationship to specific foods, Lenore enlists her ecologist friend and fellow cook, Dan, in a series of extinction dinners designed to recreate meals of the past or to illustrate how we might be eating in the future. This is the message at the heart of Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and The Future of Food, which I listened to on Storytel in the run-up to Christmas. In Lost Feast, food expert Lenore Newman sets out to look at the history of the foods we have loved to death and what that means for the culinary paths we choose for the future.

In fact, we have often eaten them into extinction, whether it is the megafauna of the Paleolithic world or the passenger pigeon of the last century. When we humans love foods, we love them a lot. Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food by Lenore Newman Paperback 21.95 Hardcover 24.95 Paperback 21.95 eBook 13.49 Audiobook 0.

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