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"The premise sounded like a rich person’s ethically suspect fever dream: a
dinner structured around endangered foods, dubbed “the last supper”.
But it wasn’t a scene out of
The Menu, the movie where detestable foodies
seek a once-in-a-lifetime experience steeped in privilege and exploitation.
Instead of dining on obscure food on the brink of extinction, the “last supper”
featured recognizable dishes – salmon, oysters, coffee, wine – that could
drastically change or disappear in the coming years as the climate warms and
brings more volatile weather.
No one would eat a food to extinction at this latest iteration of the last
supper, in a restaurant in Minneapolis, in late January, to make a point. The
point could be made with foods familiar to us, because even those are at risk
of devastation in the near future.
“The reality is this is starting to play out right now,” said Sam Kass, the
former White House chef and political adviser to President Barack Obama who
hosts these events to drive home how food and agriculture are affected by the
climate crisis.
Kass first presented the dinner concept at Cop21, the global climate change
convention, in 2015. He has since hosted them at Davos for the world economic
forum and in cities across the US."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
