Food

Name: Food
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ISBN: 9780262113090

ISBN-10: 0262113090

ISBN-13: 9780262113090

Edition: 2007

Authors: John Knechtel, Dean Baldwin, Sian Bonnell, Pierre Bï¿½langer, Angela Iarocci

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Food is essential to our sense of place and our sense of self, but today--as fast food nation meets the slow food movement and eating locally collides with on-demand arugula--our food habits are shifting. Food examines and imagines these changes, with projects by writers and artists that explore the cultural and emotional resonance of food, from the "everyday Dada" of mashed potatoes and Jell-O to the rocket science of food eaten by astronauts in space. In Food,an artist photographs everything he ate in 2006 (and some things he didn't eat, including "Food I Left in the Fridge Too Long") and finds the results both "seductive and repulsive"; a writer describes the global agro-assembly line…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 10/19/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 5.00" wide x 6.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

John Knechtel is Director of Alphabet City Media in Toronto.



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