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What is food?
What is food?
by Moto
"And if the cuisine at Moto, his "molecular tasting lab," can be described as postmodern, Cantu himself has little time for gastro-academic posing.
He's driven by a techno-utopian vision of decentralized food in which the world's ever-growing appetites are met by a radical transformation of agriculture itself — and it all begins in our kitchens."
"Make enough food for everyone. That's the end game," says Cantu. "And to get there, we have to start thinking a little crazier about what food is."
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/whatisfood.html
by Moto
"And if the cuisine at Moto, his "molecular tasting lab," can be described as postmodern, Cantu himself has little time for gastro-academic posing.
He's driven by a techno-utopian vision of decentralized food in which the world's ever-growing appetites are met by a radical transformation of agriculture itself — and it all begins in our kitchens."
"Make enough food for everyone. That's the end game," says Cantu. "And to get there, we have to start thinking a little crazier about what food is."
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/whatisfood.html
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More comments from Moto on wired.com...
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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