Customer Reviews:
 Not just a textbook... January 20, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
First off, let me say that this book is not just a dry, dusty, tome of facts and figures. This is a funny, common sense filled book about the future of food, starting with a two hundred plus history of how mankind saw food. What would we eat? Would we have enough? Should we give up meat? After this foundation the author, Warren Belasco, slips us into the places and people who have shaped our ideas of future food. World fairs, Walt Disney, futurists, science fiction writers, businesses, car companies, and so on. This is really an enjoyable book. Yet it also asks us some serious questions about the future and where food is place in it. Do we want meat? Do we want food pills? Do we want to have any say in what it tastes like? Anybody who enjoys history or science fiction or future history needs this book!
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