Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on December 7, 2007
Enterprise and Society 2007 8(4):960-962; doi:10.1093/es/khm093
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Warren Belasco. Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food
Warren Belasco. Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2006. xiii + 358 pp. ISBN 0-520-24151-0, $55.00 (cloth); ISBN 0-520-25035-4, $21.95 (paper)
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Warren Belasco does not know what the future of food is going to be, but he does know a great deal about the history of the future of food. In his book, Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food, Belasco examines predictions, discussions, fears, and controversies that have surrounded our food supply over the previous two centuries. As he notes in his introduction, making predictions is a risky business, but, risk aside, there have been no shortage
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