Truffles and Trash: Recirculating Food in a Social Welfare State

by Kelly Alexander

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 social restaurant serving low-cost meals made from supermarket surplus by an emergent immigrant labor force to a social inclusion program in an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469678594
• ISBN13: 9781469678597
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 240 Pages