Food

8⁰⁰ introduction
john knechtel

12⁰⁰ the rise of the gastronaut
jane levi
the meals developed for
space travelers tend to reflect
contemporary terrestrial food
culture, from synthetic goop in
tubes to freshly space-farmed
vegetables

28⁰⁰ mother lode
rebecca duclos
david ross
inside a sandstone mountain
on a remote arctic island,
the construction of the svalbard
global seed vault is underway

42⁰⁰ chinese american
mei chin
a series of lost texts from the
chinese historical classics
has recently been discovered
and translated

56⁰⁰ candy coated
christine d’onofrio
oral-erotic pleasure plays
out on smarties candy

66⁰⁰ more
ann shin
poems

76⁰⁰ house beautiful
sian bonnell
interior designs are made
of spaghetti, cold cuts

92⁰⁰ take back the fruit:
public space and
community activism
fallen fruit
los angelenos gather
fruit from public trees,
and make jam

104⁰⁰ attempt at an inventory
dean baldwin
an artist photographs (almost)
everything he eats and drinks
over the course of a year

148⁰⁰ placing food
nina-marie lister
toronto’s edible landscape

186⁰⁰ global tastes
john feffer
will the eating local movement
suffer the fate of organic
food and become just one more
commodity?

198⁰⁰ apples to oranges
claire ironside
the fuel consumption of an
orange trucked to toronto
from california compared to
that of an organic apple
grown in southern ontario

208⁰⁰ foodshed: the globalized
infrastructure of the
ontario food terminal
pierre bélanger
angela iarocci
the terminal is critical
to toronto’s food system

240⁰⁰ seeds of the city
harriet friedmann
north american immigrant
communities sustain diasporic
seed varieties, breeding
techniques, and recipes from
around the world

252⁰⁰ zwischenstadt 905
wayne roberts
can the exurbs feed the city?

264⁰⁰ farm city
chris hardwicke
a skyscraper for living and
farming would enable cities
to feed themselves

272⁰⁰ what a city
could taste like
katie rabinowicz
andrea winkler
how can street food
be revived?