{"product_id":"the-anthropocene-cookbook-isbn-9780262047401","title":"The Anthropocene Cookbook","description":"\u003cb\u003eMore than sixty speculative art and design projects explore how art, food, and creative thinking can prepare us for future catastrophes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the Age of the Anthropocene—an era characterized by human-caused climate disaster—catastrophes and dystopias loom. \u003ci\u003eThe Anthropocene Cookbook\u003c\/i\u003e takes our planetary state of emergency as an opportunity to seize the moment to imagine constructive change and new ideas. How can we survive in an age of constant environmental crises? How can we thrive? \u003ci\u003eThe Anthropocene Cookbook\u003c\/i\u003e answers these questions by presenting a series of investigative art and design projects that explore how art, food, and creative thinking can prepare us for future catastrophes. This cookbook of ideas rethinks our eating habits and traditions, challenges our food taboos, and proposes new recipes for humanity’s survival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese more than sixty projects propose new ways to think and make food, offering tools for creative action rather than traditional recipes. They imagine modifying the human body to digest cellulose, turning plastic into food, tasting smog, extracting spices and medicines from sewage, and growing meat in the lab. They investigate provocative possibilities: What if we made cheese using human bacteria, enabled human photosynthesis through symbiosis with algae, and brought back extinct species in order to eat them? The projects are diverse in their creative approaches and their agendas—multilayered, multifaceted, hybrid, and cross-pollinated. \u003ci\u003eThe Anthropocene Cookbook\u003c\/i\u003e offers a survival guide for a future gone rogue, a road map to our edible futures.Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e1 Cooking for Survival 19\u003cbr\u003e2 Ecological Crisis Menu 31\u003cbr\u003e3 Anthropocene Specials 49\u003cbr\u003e4 Fake Foodies 71\u003cbr\u003e5 Human Deli 91\u003cbr\u003e6 Bug Buffet 117\u003cbr\u003e7 Future Superfoods 143\u003cbr\u003e8 Future Junk Food 163\u003cbr\u003e9 Fantastic Cuisine 179\u003cbr\u003e10 Outlook 191\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 199\u003cbr\u003eNotes 203\u003cbr\u003eSelected Bibliography 233\u003cbr\u003eIllustration Credits 251\u003cbr\u003eIndex 255\u003cb\u003eIncluded in \u003ci\u003eDezeen\u003c\/i\u003e's top 11 architecture and design books of 2022 \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“By turns enlightening and profound, difficult and preposterous, Cerpina and Stenslie’s account is an impassioned call for ‘visionary thinking’ and dismantling food taboos. Climate-concerned cooks with an open mind will find much to chew on in this surprising culinary tour.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Cerpina and Stenslie don’t think humans should shy away from creative solutions to our food problems. To that end, they hope the book reaches as many eaters as possible, and fast. They began writing it six years ago, and since then, a host of catastrophes—COVID-19, massive forest fires, and wheat shortages caused by the war in Ukraine among them—have exacerbated their sense of urgency. But they remain optimistic. Even as things may seem to get worse, Cerpina says, “we are likely to thrive if our imagination is able to take the challenge.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Atlas Obscura\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“If you are looking for solutions to the great problems of mankind, you will probably not expect them to be found in a cookbook. But that is exactly what \u003ci\u003eThe Anthropocene Cookbook\u003c\/i\u003e wants: to provide answers to the question of how humans can deal with impending catastrophes such as food shortages and the loss of species.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eDER SPIEGEL\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Cerpina and Stenslie's anthology confronts the idea that the Anthropocene era — the time during which humans have had a substantial impact on the Earth's environment — entails a radical reassessment of what we eat, and how...\u003ci\u003eThe Anthropocene Cookbook\u003c\/i\u003e's chapters traverse topics such as alternative approaches to food security, new potentially edible ingredients and the culinary possibilities offered by the human body. Cerpina and Stenslie — who independently are both artists, curators and researchers — embarked on the book to try to provoke creative thinking about the existential challenges facing humanity.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eDezeen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Authors Zane Cerpina and Stahl Stenslie present more than sixty thought-provoking and stomach-churning art projects, such as Evaristti’s spaghetti and meatballs. Using out-of-the-box thinking, their goal is to reimagine the future of food in a radical way in order to understand humanity’s future in the age of the Anthropocene.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eGastronomica\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Through thought-provoking projects and commentary, Cerpina and Stenslie encourage us to think and reflect in order to spark our collective imagination. Together, they envision possibilities for our edible future and beyond!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Stephanie Tharp, Professor, University of Michigan; coauthor of \u003ci\u003eDiscursive Design: Critical, Speculative\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Alternative Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Anthropocene Cookbook\u003c\/i\u003e is not your typical recipe book. It is more important than that. It is a cookbook for the imagination, containing recipes that remind us how to imagine, speculate, dream — and see the world otherwise.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Julian Bleecker, Founder, Near Future Laboratory; Chief Executive Officer, OMATA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Around the table is the right place to think about our future, and adapting to the Anthropocene requires the creativity of the kitchen. This recipe book is a must-have for people willing to experiment with radical ideas through cooking.” \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Matteo Vignoli, Assistant Professor, University of Bologna; Founder, Future Food Institute\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eZane Cerpina is a curator and writer working within experimental and digital arts. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eStahl Stenslie is a curator and researcher specializing in experimental and emerging aesthetics, and disruptive technologies who has held positions at Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, and Aalborg University.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302064410853,"sku":"NP9780262047401","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262047401.jpg?v=1767738101","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-anthropocene-cookbook-isbn-9780262047401","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}