'Cities cover just 2% of the world’s surface, but consume 75% of the world’s resources’.
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.
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Imprint: Vintage Digital
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Published: 31/01/2013
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ISBN: 9781446496091
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Length: 400 Pages
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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'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
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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
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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 - is in the real sense of the word - vital
The Times
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Hungry City is a smorgasbord of a book: dip into it and you will emerge with something fascinating
Independent
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She can précis her specialist sources briskly, and her own direct research (e.g. a mega kitchen for cooking ready meals) is lively
Guardian
