Food
It’s All Common Sense: Damon Gameau and Simon Bryant on healthy living (Perth Writers Festival 2016)
Our country is facing unprecedented levels of obesity; we’re told daily to eat less sugar, eat less fat, eat more good fat, go paleo, eat protein, drop carbs, don’t eat meat and so on. Do we need to analyse every mouthful or will moderation suffice?
Damon Gameau (director and star of That Sugar Film
The live storytelling smash hit 5 x 15 returns to the Sydney Writers’ Festival with another dazzling line-up. Working without scripts, the five speakers have just 15 minutes apiece.
In this excerpt, chef Adam Liaw looks at food stories: why they’re both unendurably boring and absolutely necessary.
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With The Third Plate, New York chef Dan Barber asks us to change the way we think about food. An early supporter of the farm-to-table philosophy, Barber now questions the ethos, which he argues cherry-picks ingredients and can be ecologically demanding. He now offers a solution for a more sustainable supply chain. He
Close to a billion of the world’s population are overweight while 300 million are clinically defined as obese. Experts predict a rapid increase in these figures - particularly in industrialised countries. So, what is to be done?
The world must solve three food problems simultaneously: end hunger, double food production by 2050, and do both while drastically reducing agriculture’s damage to the environment. A discussion presented by Festival of Ideas, University of Melbourne
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3The rapid rise in the global population combined with the predicted effects of climate change threaten to have a heavily destabilising effect on the...
AA Gill and Anthony Bourdain both love words almost as much as they love food, and neither hesitates to use them as weapons in their endless culinary quest for satisfaction, if not...
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Food companies have contributed to the development of a food system that now provides adequate and safe food to billions of people worldwide. However...
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Food companies have contributed to the development of a food system that now provides adequate and safe food to billions of people worldwide. However...
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Food companies have contributed to the development of a food system that now provides adequate and safe food to billions of people worldwide. However...