Connexions - Food

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There is a saying that 'You are what you eat It's alsó true that you are how you eat. In all parts of the world eating is much more than a way of simply keepmg alive. The production and preparation of food occupy vast amounts of time and energy, not just in industry but alsó in the home. Meals bring families together and eating them provides one of our most enjoyable leisure experiences. Food is about this close involvement of food with our social lives, and in particular about the way our old-established eating habits are being affected by new ways of providing food. For even in this most basic area of life, technology has moved in. The growing demand for 'convenience' foods, for food which is plentiful, cheap and easy to prepare, is making far-reaching changes: farming, and therefore the countryside, is being run more and more as an industry; synthetic foods are being developed and synthetic chemicals added to natural ones; and quite new sorts of food shops and restaurants... Tovább

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There is a saying that 'You are what you eat It's alsó true that you are how you eat. In all parts of the world eating is much more than a way of simply keepmg alive. The production and preparation of food occupy vast amounts of time and energy, not just in industry but alsó in the home. Meals bring families together and eating them provides one of our most enjoyable leisure experiences. Food is about this close involvement of food with our social lives, and in particular about the way our old-established eating habits are being affected by new ways of providing food. For even in this most basic area of life, technology has moved in. The growing demand for 'convenience' foods, for food which is plentiful, cheap and easy to prepare, is making far-reaching changes: farming, and therefore the countryside, is being run more and more as an industry; synthetic foods are being developed and synthetic chemicals added to natural ones; and quite new sorts of food shops and restaurants springing up Food asks how all this is affecting our priváté, family and social lives. and, in conclusion, what may be the impact of Western food technology on those hungry countries of the world that we are trying to help feed. Richárd Mabey is generál editor of Connexions (he wrote the first volume, Behind the Scene) and alsó a freelance writer, specializing in educational, environmental and natural-history topics. He has lectured in social studies at a college of further education, and has written a book on the edible wild plants of Britain Vissza