Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives A passionate, important
and visionary book about how our cities are fed, and how this
affects our lives and our planet. In 2005, British supermarkets
sent half a million tones of edible food to landfill. The
relationship between food and cities is fundamental to our
everyday lives. The gargantuan effort necessary to feed cities
arguably has a greater social and physical impact on us and our
planet than anything else we do. Yet few of us are conscious of
the process and rarely stop to wonder how food reaches our
plates. Hungry Cityexamines the ways modern food production has
damaged the balance of human existence, creating a whole host of
problems, from obesity, the inexorable rise of the supermarket,
to the destruction of the natural world. Carolyn Steel follows
food on its journey — from the land (and sea) to market and
supermarket, kitchen to table, waste-dump and back again —
exploring the historical roots and the contemporary issues at
each stage of food’s cycle. She