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Truffles and trash : recirculating food in a social welfare state /

On a fragile planet with spreading food insecurity, food waste is a political and ethical problem. In Truffles and Trash, Kelly Alexander reveals it is also an opportunity for new forms of sociality. These dynamics play out across a diverse set of locations-from a food bank with ties to the EU and a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alexander, Kelly (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2024].
Subjects:
Food waste > Social aspects > Belgium > Brussels.
Food supply > Social aspects > Belgium > Brussels.
Food waste > Belgium > Brussels > Prevention.
Waste minimization > Belgium > Brussels.
Food security > Belgium > Brussels.
Food industry and trade > Belgium > Brussels.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations)
Table of Contents:
  • La truffe et la poubelle, or the Truffle and the trash
  • A world-class problem, everyone says so
  • Why Belgium?
  • Church, state, food, waste
  • When food waste goes to work
  • The affective abbattoir
  • A spectrum of edibility.