[SustainableTompkins] Eating Good in the Neighborhood: The Medical and Moral History of Dietary Localism

[Liz Karabinakis]

An event of possible interest to anybody thinking about local foods, 
food equity, and everything in between.
Best,
Liz*
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***Eating Good in the Neighborhood: The Medical and Moral History of 
Dietary Localism***

Steven Shapin (Department of the History of Science, Harvard University)
April 14 at 4:30 pm
374 Rockefeller Hall on the Cornell Campus/
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Abstract:* *The Oxford University Press recently anointed “locavore” 
Word of the Year. It was made up in 2005 by some San Franciscans who 
thought it a good idea to eat only foods produced within a 100 mile 
radius. We should be locavores for the uniquely Californian joint 
reasons that it is good for the palate and good for the planet.
Localism is now widely urged as a reaction to the globalization of the 
food supply that has become a marked feature of the way we live now; we 
should reject modern globalization and return to the local ways of the 
past. My purpose here is: (1) to ask whether locavores have got their 
history right; (2) to explore how medical and moral traditions from 
Antiquity to fairly recent times have thought about the dietetic local 
and the exotic; (3) to use this historical exploration of dietary 
localism as a window onto changing conceptions of the self and its 
aliment over a broad sweep of history.

Questions? Or for more info, please contact the Department of Science & 
Technology Studies (607)255-3810

Coming from off campus? TCAT's Rt 10 offers shuttle service from Seneca 
St. to Sage Hall every 10 minutes
http://tcat.nextinsight.com/routes.php?mrnid=227

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-- 
Elizabeth Viviana Karabinakis
/Community Food Educator/
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County
615 Willow Ave.
Ithaca, NY 14850
Phone: 607.272.2292
Fax: 607.272.7088
Email: evk4 at cornell.edu