What is food?

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Permalink Reply by Rachel Wingfield on January 11, 2009 at 3:52pm

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Wired.com: What is food?

Cantu: It's what enables us to live — and more than that, it's dense energy storage. If you look at it from that point of view, you start shooting two birds with one shot.

How can we get something new into the food supply while serving another purpose, such as making plastic? We're going to start working with things that grow easily in varied climates, and the end result will be printed food that grows on your roof.

Decentralizing food is the wave of the future.

We're going to show people how to make plastic from potatoes. How to make styrofoam peanuts from two ingredients and a microwave, and you'll eat them, too. There will be a polymer oven you can put in your microwave and 30 seconds later, it's 500 degrees hot. Instead of using a gas oven or giant electric oven, you'll shrink it down to the size of your hand and only heat the space you need. If you walk into a kitchen and it's hot, there's wasted energy there. Our kitchen isn't hot.

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Permalink Reply by Jenny on February 11, 2009 at 6:48pm

"tulip bulbs were a common dish near the end of the Second World War when there was a great shortage of food in Holland."

If we were to face a shortage of food in our lifetime, we might begin to turn to forgotten edibles that exist in our envrionment.

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