To know where your food comes from. It’s been a rallying call for the past few decades, intended to help people “connect the dots” between field and sea, to pantry and table. Injecting that question into the national conversation has worked. There’s a heightened awareness that food doesn’t simply “come from the supermarket,” and there is increased interest in understanding how our “food system” impacts the environment and economies of the world.
But along with making the connections between soil and plant, and animals and vegetables, the forces of civilization also influence “where our food comes from” – those societal forces of politics and trade, technology, power and belief.
To get a glimpse of the evolution of the buffet of popular lore and contradictory facts- that chart the evolution of what has sustained us, check out the Food Timeline - I guarantee you’ll find something of interest.
