Food Routes: Growing Bananas in Iceland and Other Tales from the Logistics of Eating Audiobook (Free)

In Food Routes, Robyn Metcalfe explores an often-overlooked facet of the global food program: how food movements from producer to consumer. She discovers that the food supply chain is definitely adapting to our increasingly complex demands for both personalization and convenience-but, she says, it will not be an easy ride.

Networked, digital tools is going to improve the food system but may also task our relationship to food in anxiety-provoking ways. It might not be easy to transfer our affections from verdant about Food Routes: Growing Bananas in Iceland and Other Tales through the Logistics of Consuming fields of organic tomato vegetables to high-rise greenhouses tended by robots. Yet, argues Metcalfe-a careful technology optimist-technological advances offer opportunities for innovations that may get better food to more folks in an significantly urbanized world.

Metcalfe follows a slice of New York pizza and a golf club sandwich through the meals supply string; considers regional foods, global foods, and food deserts; investigates the processing, packaging, and storage of meals; explores the transportation networks that connect farm to dish; and explains how meals can be tracked using detectors and the web of Things. Potential food may be built, networked, and almost independent of vegetation grown in fields. New technologies can make the food program even more efficient-but at what cost to our typically close relationship with food?