Our Changing Menu

Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need

AvMichael P. Hoffmann,Carrie Koplinka-Loehr

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

Our Changing Menu helps us understand how to think about food, rather than what to think. The diversity of the co-authors' experiences is woven together to create awareness and help us get involved in improving our diets, while reducing food waste and food's impacts on climate change and the planet.— Jason Clay, Senior Vice President, Markets, World Wildlife FundOur Changing Menu unpacks the increasingly complex relationships between food and climate change. Whether you're a chef, baker, distiller, restaurateur, or someone who simply enjoys a good pizza or drink, it's time to come to terms with how climate change is affecting our diverse and interwoven food system.Michael P. Hoffmann, Carrie Koplinka-Loehr, and Danielle L. Eiseman offer an eye-opening journey through a complete menu of before-dinner drinks and salads; main courses and sides; and coffee and dessert. Along the way they examine the escalating changes occurring to the flavors of spices and teas, the yields of wheat, the vitamins in rice, and the price of vanilla. Their story is rounded out with a primer on the global food system, the causes and impacts of climate change, and what we can all do.Our Changing Menu is a celebration of food and a call to action-encouraging readers to join with others from the common ground of food to help tackle the greatest challenge of our time.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-04-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Cornell University Press
ISBN:9781501754623

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Mer om författaren

Michael P. Hoffmann is Professor Emeritus at Cornell University.Carrie Koplinka-Loehr is a freelance writer with an MS in science education from Cornell University.Danielle L. Eiseman is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Communication at Cornell University.

Recensioner i media

Our Changing Menu is a detailed, lively overview of how the world's most popular eats arrive to the table under more and more challenging conditions... The book's concise analysis of climate science and its effects on water, soil, pests, pollinators, and pathogens is engaging and accessible.(Foreword Review) Our Changing Menu is an excellent introduction to the science behind our changing planet and the problems presented by climate change. Where the book is most successful is the way it takes a massive problem, and breaks it down into solutions that can lead to meaningful action.(Stone Pier Press) This book is very well researched and easy to read. It is also recommended for anyone wanting to expand their knowledge about global food systems and how we can keep on enjoying the foods we know and love in an uncertain time of global change.(Green Teacher)

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionBACKGROUND: SETTING THE TABLE1. Our Food Supply: From Land and Sea to the Menu2. Our Changing Climate3. Climate Change: How It Is Fundamentally Altering the MenuTHE MENU4. Beer, Wine, and Spirits: Raise Your Glass5. Salads: Distinct, Diverse, Delicious6. The Main Course7. Grains, Starches, and Other Sides8. Dessert and CoffeeSOLUTIONS: TACKLING CLIMATE CHANGE AND SAVING THE MENU9. Farmers, Businesses, and Scientists: How They Are Helping10. What We Can Do