Walk down Brick Lane today and you will be bombarded with the aroma of cooking smells coming from the myriad of food outlets. Then heading down Commercial Street and on to Brune Street, wander past the building engraved ‘Soup Kitchen for the Jewish Poor’ and reflect how lucky we are to have such an abundance of choice these days.
We understand the concept of cradle to cradle, we are learning to conserve fuel and recycle our precious metals. We worry about the packaging and the fuel costs but should we be more concerned about the contents. The seven billionth person was born last week. They will require perhaps 35 tonnes of food in their lifetime. What will they eat in a city with no food?
Imagine a starving inner city population reliant on soup kitchens. Is the concept of ‘cradle to table’ depicted in the last frame of the film so shocking?
Bibliography
Steel, Carolyn. Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives. London: Vintage, 2009.
Dodd, George. The Food Of London. London: Ayer Publishing, 1856.
Kuntsler, James – Howard. The Long Emergency. New York: Grove Press, 2005.
Braungart , Michael. Cradle to Cradle. London: Vintage, 2009.
Despommier, Dickson. The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century. New York: St Martins Press, 2010.
Suskind, Patrick. Perfume. London: Penguin Books, 1985.
Mieville, China. The City & the City. London: Macmillan, 2009.
Delicatessen. Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Miramax, 1991.
The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover. Peter Greenaway, Miramax, 1989.
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