Publisher's Synopsis
Some like it simple or traditional, some experimental: hot or cold, from grandparents or from the restaurant, food occupies multiple spaces and meanings. Act of love, sharing, comfort, seeking; enjoyment and pleasure involving the senses and the elements; expression of cultures and possibility of encounter. Topic of pop and television culture, communication and advertising. And also, hyper mass production and distribution, depletion of water and agricultural resources, marketing, packaging, monocultures, intensive farming: food in the dimension of spasmodic consumption. Food, and the actions that precede it and spring from it, are like a planet with poles and infinite territories running through it. This new collective book by DITO Publishing wants to investigate this theme and the countless aspects connected to it. Is it food, and thus the act of cooking, that made us the human beings we are?
