On Food: Barry Estabrook on How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit, Aaron Bobrow-Strain on White Bread: A Social Historyand Josh Schonwald on the Future of Food, with moderator Art Freidrich
Sunday, Nov. 18, 1:30 p.m., Batten (Building 2, 1st Floor, Room 2106)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Barry Estabrook
There’s a dark side behind all those perfectly round, perfectly red, perfectly tasteless tomatoes we’ve come to expect. Tomatoland:How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit (Andrews McMeel Publishing, $19.99), based on Barry Estabrook’s James Beard Award-winning article, reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the $10 billion fresh-tomato industry. You’ll never look at a tomato the same way again. Estabrook is a contributing editor to Gourmet and a founding editor of EatingWell magazine.
Aaron Bobrow-Strain
Few foods have been as revered and reviled as industrial white bread. In White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf (Beacon Press, $29.95) Aaron Bobrow-Strain explores the driving forces behind bread's evolving identity. From bakers and housewives to food gurus and politicians, he documents how ideas about bread reflected the identity of a nation. Bobrow-Strain writes and teaches on the politics of the global food system. He is the author of Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas.
Josh Schonwald
What will food taste like in 2035? That’s the question Josh Schonwald answers in The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches from the Future of Food (HarperCollins, $25.99). Schonwald takes readers on a round-the-world tour of forward-thinking farmers, mad scientists, and entrepreneurs who are developing new ways to produce and improve food sources. “. . . Schonwald weighs carefull the pros and cons of our well-intentioned, but often blindsided ‘foodie fundamentalism.”—Publishers Weekly. Schonwald has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, and Salon.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Batten (Building 2, 1st Floor, Room 2106)
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