Ya en la mañana me había enterado de un post en Edible Geography sobre la participación de Rachel Laudan en el Postópolis DF que se realizó la semana pasada en México, DF. Jason Kottke resume este contenido como una breve historia del maíz en México.
La entrada de Edible Geography comienza así:
La exposición de Rachel Laudan abre con el siguiente planteamiento:
Enlace: Fueling Mexico City: A Grain Revolution (Versión en español vía Google Translate)
La entrada de Edible Geography comienza así:
Beginning at Walmart and ending with a filling and economical meal at a comida corrida, via a traditional bakery, we explored the intersection of food, class, and economics in contemporary Mexico.
La exposición de Rachel Laudan abre con el siguiente planteamiento:
All cities require fuel: oil, gas, electricity, and so on. What I want to talk about today is the energy that fuels the people in the cities—food. Without food energy, a city is nothing. A city is nothing without the people who work and play and enjoy or suffer through the city, and they require food.
[...] I want to talk in four short bursts. The first is about what all cities need in the way of food. The second is the reason why Mexico City had a particularly hard time with food. The third describes a revolution in the food of Mexico City that has taken place in the twenty years since I first saw it. And the fourth is about the kind of trade-offs that had to be made to undergo that revolution in food.
Enlace: Fueling Mexico City: A Grain Revolution (Versión en español vía Google Translate)