#103: The Next Menu
This week, with the world's forests burning from the Amazon to Indonesia, we\u2019re revisiting a 2017 episode about the future of food\u2014the production of which, whether beef or palm oil, has caused an unprecedented number of deliberate fires. Centuries of colonialism and resource extraction have transformed continents and the waters between them. Oceans are rising and acidifying, resulting in the extinction of some species and the proliferation of others. What will the act of eating be like 30 years from now? Fifty? One hundred? To imagine that future, we\u2019re joined in this episode by a novelist and a chef\u2014Alexandra Kleeman and Jen Monroe\u2014who dreamed up what a dinner party might look like in the future, on the border between science fiction and reality \u2026 and then threw that dinner party, in the corner of a Brooklyn restaurant.
Go beyond the episode:
- Read about the indigenous fight against Jair Bolsonaro and his agribusiness interests in the Amazon
- Check out Bad Taste, Jen Monroe\u2019s experimental food project, and read this article from \u201cBalling the Queen,\u201d a series of essays and dinners exploring honey bees, consumption, and collapse
- Read \u201cChoking Victim,\u201d a short story by Alexandra Kleeman
- Explore the unusual artistic encounters of The Bellwether, which put on The Next Menu, and read Jordan Kisner\u2019s essay on the massive aspen grove threatened by climate change
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