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Би Уилсон. The Way We Eat Now
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
INTRODUCTION: The Gatherers and the Hunted
1: The Food Transition
And they never went hungry again
Where the balance falls
Stage four
The Global Standard Diet
The mythical banana kingdom of Iceland
A short history of eating too much
Bending the curve
What we ate next
2: Mismatch
The thin-fat baby
The thirst conundrum
The stigmatised majority
3: Edible Economics
A hidden sea of oil
Never tasted before
Bread economics
Engel’s law
Give us this day our daily meat
Value for money
4: Out of Time
The death of the lunch hour
Like a rest in music
Wasting time or wasting food
The rhythm of modern life
The woman who never snacks
Snack foods for the world
‘He’s not really big on food’
The healthy snack
Eating alone together
5: The Changeable Eater
What’s salsa?
New but not really
Now comes quinoa
Fads and frauds
6: Dinner Without Duty
The democratic restaurant
Calories and convenience
Dinner on a bike
Self-service
The inequalities of choice
7: Eating by the Rules
Bleeding beetroot
The healthiest of all possible diets
The enigma of the protein bar
Beyond food
The opposite of a cucumber
8: The Return to Cooking
The dabbler cook
Cooking by numbers
The land of cooks
New kitchen rules
9: Crossing the Bridge
The sweet green grass
Killing the cartoon characters
‘If I had maths results like this I’d be out of a job’
Celebrate with olives
The joy of greens
Recipe for a seed
EPILOGUE: New Food on Old Plates
Eat new food on old plates
Don’t drink anything ‘like water’ unless it is water
Devote less attention to snacks and more to meals
Change your appetites
Shift the balance
Try to eat in ratios, not in absolutes
Eat protein and vegetables first and carbohydrates last
Vary what you eat
Find time for food
Learn to cook the foods that you want yourself to eat
Have unfashionable tastes
Know what you are eating
Use your senses
Footnotes. INTRODUCTION: The Gatherers and the Hunted
4: Out of Time
References. INTRODUCTION: The Gatherers and the Hunted
1: The Food Transition
2: Mismatch
3: Edible Economics
4: Out of Time
5: The Changeable Eater
6: Dinner Without Duty
7: Eating by the Rules
8: The Return to Cooking
9: Crossing the Bridge
EPILOGUE: New Food on Old Plates
Bibliography
Illustrations
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Publisher
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For Leo
Walt Whitman, ‘Song of Myself’
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It might surprise you to learn (it did me) that the most average place in the world, food-wise, is not the United States, which is actually pretty extreme in the composition of its diet. To take one example, Americans have access to around twice the global average calories from meat (around 1,000 calories as against 500). Americans also consume far more sugar and sweeteners than the global mean.
To find the most average eaters in the world, you need to look to some of the middle-income countries of the developing world, especially in Latin America. These countries seem to hold up a mirror to the way food consumption is now shifting to a global mean. Purely in terms of the crops consumed, one of the most average places in the world for food is Colombia. Here, the top four sources of calories used to be maize followed by animal products followed by sugar and rice. Now the order is changed. Top of the list of Colombian foods are animal products (518 calories) followed by sugar (404 calories), then maize (368 calories) and rice (334 calories). Compared with the 1960s, people in Colombia have access to far more wheat and sugar and more refined oils.29
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