Our Changing Menu: Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need
Michael P. Hoffmann, Carrie Koplinka-Loehr, and Danielle L. Eiseman
Abstract
This book 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. The book offers 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, the book examines the escalating changes occurring to the flavors of spices and teas, the yields of wheat, the vitamins in rice, and the ... More
This book 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. The book offers 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, the book examines the escalating changes occurring to the flavors of spices and teas, the yields of wheat, the vitamins in rice, and the price of vanilla. The 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. The book 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.
Keywords:
food,
climate change,
global food system,
menus,
spices,
teas,
wheat,
rice,
vitamins,
vanilla
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2021 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781501754623 |
Published to Cornell Scholarship Online: September 2021 |
DOI:10.7591/cornell/9781501754623.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Michael P. Hoffmann, author
Cornell University
Carrie Koplinka-Loehr, author
Cornell University
Danielle L. Eiseman, author
Cornell University
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