Hungry City
  • Published: 16 May 2013
  • ISBN: 9780099584476
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $32.99

Hungry City

How Food Shapes Our Lives

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31 Jan 2013
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16 May 2013
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A passionate, important and visionary book about how our cities are fed, and how this affects our lives and our planet.

*According to the Trussell Trust, food bank use between April and Sept 2018 was up 13% on the same period in 2017.*

*Every year in the UK 18 million tonnes of food end up in landfill.*

Why is this the case and what can we do about it?

The relationship between food and cities is fundamental to our everyday lives. Food shapes cities and through them it moulds us - along with the countryside that feeds us. Yet few of us are conscious of the process and we rarely stop to wonder how food reaches our plates.

Hungry City examines the way in which modern food production has damaged the balance of human existence, and reveals that we have yet to resolve a centuries-old dilemma - one which holds the key to a host of current problems, from obesity and the inexorable rise of the supermarkets, to the destruction of the natural world.

Original, inspiring and written with infectious enthusiasm and belief, Hungry City illuminates an issue that is fundamental to us all.
  • Published: 16 May 2013
  • ISBN: 9780099584476
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

Carolyn Steel

Carolyn Steel is a leading thinker on food and cities. Her first book, Hungry City, received international acclaim, establishing her as an influential voice in a wide variety of fields across academia, industry and the arts. It won the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction and was chosen as a BBC Food Programme book of the year. A London-based architect, academic and writer, Carolyn has lectured at the University of Cambridge, London Metropolitan University, Wageningen University and the London School of Economics and is in international demand as a speaker. Her 2009 TED talk has received more than one million views.

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Praise for Hungry City

Absolutely crammed with eye-opening facts and figures, a hugely readable account of the part we individually play in a global problem. Highly Recommended

Publishing News

Hungry City is a sinister real-life sequel to Animal Farm with the plot turned upside down by time in ways even George Orwell could not have foreseen

Observer

Exuberant, provocative... her desire that we understand better and think more about our food, how much we waste, how much energy it consumes and how we dispose of it... It is - in the real sense of the word - vital

David Aaronovitch, The Times

Lively, wide-ranging, endlessly inquisitive... Hungry City is a smorgasbord of a book: dip into it and you will emerge with something fascinating

Independent

She can précis her specialist sources briskly, and her own direct research (e.g. a mega kitchen for cooking ready meals) is lively

Vera Rule, Guardian

this is for the person who knows everything about food but nothing about its source

Sunday Tribune

A superb account of the uneasy relationship between the city and its means of sustenance, charting the historical rise of urban areas and the monopolisation of the food chain by conglomerates

Ian Critchley, Sunday Telegraph

dense with details, rippling with insight an easy to read... This is everything we need to know.

William Leith, Evening Standard

An intense, fluid, intelligent, highly absorbing text that provokes vital questions about sustainability

Food Magazine

It's one of those rare books dense with detail, rippling with insight, and easy to read...This is everything we need to know

Johanna Thomas-Corr, Scotsman

In bringing food more directly onto the 'plate' of those who think about buildings and cities, she has done us all a great service

Richard Wilk, Building and Research Information