Sitopía

Sitopia is the sequel to Hungry Cities. For millennia, food has shaped our bodies and homes, our politics and commerce, our landscapes and our climate. It could be said that food is the most powerful tool to transform our lives and the world. While Hungry Cities explores how food's journey through the city has shaped civilizations over time, Sitopia begins with a plate of food and travels out into the universe. Food animates our bodies, homes and societies, the city and the countryside, nature and time: seven scales that make up the chapters of the book. Steel explores effects that interact in multiple interconnected ways. From the cultural norms we are born into to personal tastes and preferences that affect our individual health and pleasure, but also the vitality of local economies, global geopolitics and ecology. The way we find, make and consume food has defined the history of mankind. But by forgetting our culinary heritage and relying on cheap, intensively produced food, we have drifted into a way of life that threatens our planet and ourselves. What if there was a sustainable way of eating and living?