num_pages: 320
description: From our foraging hunter-gatherer ancestors to the enormous appetites of modern cities food has shaped our bodies and homes our politics and trade and our climate. Whether its the daily decision of what to eat or the monopoly of industrial food production food touches every part of our world. But by forgetting its value we have drifted into a way of life that threatens our planet and ourselves. Yet food remains central to addressing the predicaments and opportunities of our urban digital age. Drawing on insights from philosophy history architecture literature politics and science as well as stories of the farmers designers and economists who are remaking our relationship with food Sitopia is a provocative and exhilarating vision for change and how to thrive on our crowded overheating planet. In her inspiring and deeply thoughtful new book Carolyn Steel author of Hungry Cit y points the way to a better future. 
language: English
title: Sitopia: How Food Can Save the World
publisher: Chatto & Windus