Moveable Feasts: From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat

Today the things we eat and drink have crossed oceans continents and even airspace before reaching the dinner table. The complex systems and technologies devised throughout the centuries to deliver our food supply reveal surprising things about politics culture economies--and our appetites. In Mumbai Indias chaotic commercial capital men use local trains bicycles and their feet to transport more than 170000 lunches a day from housewives to their husbands with almost no mix-ups. Modern shipping containers allow companies to send frozen salmon to China where it can be cheaply thawed filleted and refrozen before traveling back to the United States where its sold in supermarkets as fresh fish. Moveable Feasts takes a novel look at the economics logistics and environmental impact of food and brings new perspective to debates about where we get our meals.