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This 4 page paper examines four articles on the following topics: the future of food, hunger, history of cuisine and culture. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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about what the future of food will be like. Will it be simply about taking nourishment pills as seen on the Jetsons cartoon? The author thinks not and talks about
he one size fits all mentality and concludes that these ideas never work. By the time this article ends, the author is talking about the sociology of food and how
food has meaning. The argument is a good one. The meal in the pill idea is simple. Everyone would be extraordinarily healthy and it is doable, but this piece talks
about why it can never be. The obvious answer, and this is the conclusion that the author comes to, is that food is more than mere sustenance. There are meanings
attached to food. The author seemed to be correct and there is much evidence of this, but he might have addressed other issues is well. There is also a trend
toward health, diet shakes and so forth, which could include a meal in a pill possibility. Counihan, C. (1997). Bread as World:
Food Habits and Social Relations in Modernizing Sardinia in Food and Culture: A Reader. Ed. Carole Counihan and Penny Van Esterik. New York: Routledge, p. 283-295. In this
article, the author looks at a small town called Boca, located in Sardinia, and how contemporary life in general has changed a people. Various issues are discussed and for example,
there is information relayed about bread production in the region. An emphasis is placed upon the idea that women no longer bake bread for themselves but rely on bakeries in
the area to do the work. In contemporary society, few people bake bread. It is of course a hobby for some, but most homemakers pick up bread at the food
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