GEOG 3040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sugar Pie, Poutine, Local Food
25 Jan 2019
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November 7th: food: food is a part of urban culture, it changes over time, and varies place to place. Think about british pubs - they"re characteristic of pretty much the whole north. Montreal has poutine, sugar pie: cities. Food is central to the urban relationship to rural hinterland. Feeding cities is about agricultural productivity and access to the urban market: food consumption generates waste. Sewage, garbage: ecological closure suggests sewage and garbage be recycled, canadian cities. But the urban soils are usually unproductive for food; we expect food to be grown elsewhere. Depend on keeping stock food cool and frozen: chinese cities. Most urban chinese shop daily, eat fresh foods harvested within 10-15 hours. Ownership of refrigerators is relatively low, so access to fresh foods is essential: think about in mpumalanga, sa, when they would eat the pau pau off the trees, toronto. The people once raised some fo their own fruits, veg, and meat.
