The last decade has witnessed a proliferation of artists and artist collectives interrogating the global politics and ethics of food production, distribution, and consumption. As an important document of new research and thinking around the subject, POLITICS OF FOOD, contains reflections on food by prominent artists, anthropologists, and activists, amongst others. Interviews with chefs, policymakers, and agronomists critically assess and illuminate the ways the arts confront food-related issues, ranging from the infrastructure of global and local food systems, its impact on social organization, alternatives and sustainability, climate and ecology, health and policy, science and biodiversity, and identity and community.

Texts by TIM LANG, RAJ PATEL, HARRY G. WEST

Conversations between FERRAN ADRIÀ and MARTA ARZAK, TAMARA BEN-ARI and ASUNCIÓN MOLINOS GORDO, MARK HIX and PATRICK HOLDEN, MICHEL PIMBERT andTOMÁS UHNÁK, MICHAEL VAZQUEZ and MICHAEL RAKOWITZ

Contributions from KATHRIN BÖHM, CENTER FOR GENOMIC GASTRONOMY, LEONE CONTINI, COOKING SECTIONS, CHRIS FITE-WASSILAK, AMY FRANCESCHINI and MICHAEL TAUSSIG, FERNANDO GARCÍA-DORY, MELANIE JACKSON, DAGNA JAKUBOWSKA, NICK LAESSING, JANE LEVI, POPPY LITCHFIELD, CANDICE LIN, CHRISTINE MACKEY, TAUS MAKHACHEVA, ELIA NURVISTA, SENAM OKUDZETO, THOMAS PAUSZ, DANIEL SALOMON, VIVIEN SANSOUR, STANDART THINKING, SERKAN TAYCAN, LANTIAN XIE, RAED YASSIN.