Food awarness
“We hurry through our meals to go to work and hurry through our work in order to “recreate” ourselves in the evenings and on weekends and vacations. And then we hurry, with the greatest possible speed and noise and violence, through our recreation
— for what?
To eat the billionth hamburger at some fast-food joint hellbent on increasing the “quality” of our life? And all this is carried out in a remarkable obliviousness to the causes and effects, the possibilities and the purposes, of the life of the body in this world.”
Written by Alice Waters
Inspired by
“The pleasures of eating”
by Wendell Berry
I named this page as “Food awareness”. I think at some point in your life you start to really think what do you really put in your body and maybe you started to get haunted by a very famous phrase “You are what you eat.” What does it really mean? My food interest journey started 10 years ago. As a photographer I liked to be around restaurants and food places, and I was really curious about how it’s all made. It really took years before I started to understand that there is actually a difference in the food that may look the same, but is produced in different ways. Here are some books that I have read more or less and raise awareness on eating habits, food, hunger and many other food experiences.
1) Rob Desalle “Our senses”
This was the book I discovered in ZhDK Design course class “The mouth experience”
where we developed this project: “The ForkEyE”
It’s a great book if you would like to learn aboud experiences around food.
It talkes in detail about senses.
“Over the past decade neuroscience has uncovered a wealth of new information about our senses and how they serve as our gateway to the world. This splendidly accessible book explores the most intriguing findings of this research. With infectious enthusiasm, Rob DeSalle illuminates not only how we see, hear, smell, touch, taste, maintain balance, feel pain, and rely on other less familiar senses, but also how these senses shape our perception of the world aesthetically, artistically, and musically.
DeSalle first examines the question of how perception and consciousness are formed in the brain, setting human senses in an evolutionary context. He then investigates such varied themes as supersenses and diminished senses, synesthesia and other cross-sensory phenomena, hemispheric specialization, diseases, anomalies induced by brain injuries, and hallucinations. Focusing on what is revealed about our senses through the extraordinary, he provides unparalleled insights into the unique wonders of the human brain.”
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