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How food -- yes, food -- can be a tool for social change

Chef David Hertz is trying to build a movement that uses food to create jobs, increase empathy, and even address inequality. Everything changed for Brazilian chef David Hertz when he visited a favela for the first time. It was 2004, and he’d just quit his job as a chef at an upscale restaurant on the most expensive street in São Paulo. A friend...
Posted July 12, 2018
https://ideas.ted.com/how-food-yes-food-can-be-a-tool-for-social-change

What's the future of food?

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Posted November 25, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/whats-the-future-of-food

The next food revolution

Activist chef Jamie Oliver talks about the future of food -- cooking, eating, and farming. Obesity is on the rise in neighborhoods around the world -- and so are the rates of diabetes and heart disease. Can a small bit of nutrition education make a big difference? Activist chef and 2010 TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver thinks so. (Watch his talk...
Posted November 19, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/the-next-food-revolution

Ann Cooper's latest tool in the Food Revolution

Food Revolution hero Ann Cooper recently re-launched her new and improved website for The Lunch Box -- a collection of scalable recipes, resources and general information to turn any school lunch system into a healthy, balanced diet for kids. One of the most exciting initiatives of this revamp is the Great American Salad Project (GASP) which...
Posted August 25, 2010
https://blog.ted.com/2010/08/25/ann-coopers-latest-tool-in-the-food-revolution

Today! May 19 is Food Revolution Day

We've heard the statistics. Obesity has more than doubled worldwide since 1980. For the first time in history, being overweight is killing more people than being underweight. At least 2.8 million adults die each year as a result of being overweight or obese. Where do we begin to tackle such an immense problem? There is not one single solut...
Posted May 19, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/05/19/may-19-is-food-revolution-day

Five smart ways to fight food waste

An estimated 30 percent of the planet’s food supply is needlessly discarded. Here are some imaginative ideas to stop the rot. We humans have a puzzling attitude towards food -- it’s one of the few things in life that we absolutely need to survive, yet we can be shockingly careless with it. From a shriveled up peach that went ignored in a fridge...
Posted May 12, 2017
https://ideas.ted.com/five-smart-ways-to-fight-food-waste

What Americans can learn from other food cultures

Food feeds the soul. To the extent that we all eat food, and we all have souls, food is the single great unifier across cultures. But what feeds your soul? For me, a first-generation Korean-American, comfort food is a plate of kimchi, white rice, and fried Spam. Such preferences are personally meaningful -- and also culturally meaningful. Our c...
Posted December 18, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/what-americans-can-learn-from-other-food-cultures

Help Jamie Oliver gets kids into fresh food, with OpenIDEO

Launching today, Jamie Oliver challenges creative thinkers of all kinds to answer this question: How can we get kids excited about eating fresh food? Everyone who hopes to get kids eating, cooking and thinking healthier, log in to the openIDEO project page and take up the challenge, launched as part of Jamie's 2010 TED Prize. The challen...
Posted August 2, 2010
https://blog.ted.com/2010/08/02/help-jamie-oliver-gets-kids-into-fresh-food-with-openideo

Jamie Oliver gears up for Food Revolution Day on May 17

Tomorrow is a holiday, and one you can celebrate simply by eating. Jamie Oliver, who won the TED Prize in 2010, has declared May 17 as Food Revolution Day. His vision: that people gather in homes, schools, workplaces and social spaces to share their culinary knowledge, cook together and simply enjoy each other’s company as they chow down and ...
Posted May 16, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/05/16/jamie-oliver-gears-up-for-food-revolution-day-on-may-17

Adventures in food: Q&A with Marcel Dicke, from Design Mind

The new issue of design mind has a great Q&A with today's TEDTalks speaker, Marcel Dicke, in which he shares his first bug-eating experience: design mind: What were the first insects you ever tried? Marcel Dicke: It was dried, fried termites that Arnold van Huis brought back from Africa, where he’d been working. We were traveling by trai...
Posted December 1, 2010
https://blog.ted.com/2010/12/01/qa-marcel-dickes-adventures-in-food

How to change your relationship with food -- and stop eating your feelings

Here are three common-sense tips to help you feed your hunger and not your emotions, from dietician Eve Lahijani. This post is part of TED’s “How to Be a Better Human” series, each of which contains a piece of helpful advice from someone in the TED community. To see all the posts, go here. Imagine if eating were as simple as, say, refueling...
Posted March 4, 2019
https://ideas.ted.com/how-to-change-your-relationship-with-food-and-stop-eating-your-feelings

Drones to deliver medicine and food? Drones for disaster relief? Why not?

Andreas Raptopoulos and his colleagues at Matternet are attempting to create a network of drones that operate like the internet, only for tangible objects. This company -- which sprung out of an idea surfaced at Singularity University in 2011 -- aims to deliver items wherever they are needed, even if no usable roads go there. In his TED T...
Posted November 21, 2013
https://ideas.ted.com/6-ways-drones-can-be-used-for-good

Things we should and shouldn't do (one of them definitely nowhere near food)

Let’s not do any of these things “Here are nine ways we could really screw things up.” MIT’s Andrew McAfee gets right to the heart of the matter with this pithy post on how we might be able to thrive in the new machine age, but only if we’re thoughtful and smart about not mucking it all up. Particularly noteworthy, #3: “Skimp on basic research....
Posted May 6, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/things-we-should-and-shouldnt-do-one-of-them-definitely-nowhere-near-food

Want to grow your own food? 9 tips to help you get started

Whether it’s as a hobby while people are stuck at home or a way to get fresh produce without going to stores, vegetable and fruit gardening is having a bit of a renaissance right now. But if you’ve been killing houseplants for years or aren’t sure where to start, it's not all that complicated, says Stephen Ritz, New York City educator and fou...
Posted May 6, 2020
https://ideas.ted.com/want-to-grow-your-own-food-9-tips-to-help-you-get-started

Jamie Oliver sets eyes on a Guinness World Record with his Food Revolution

Jamie Oliver’s third annual Food Revolution Day is tomorrow on Friday, May 16. This year, among the many other food-filled activities lined up, the healthy eating activist and 2010 TED Prize winner is looking to break the Guinness World Record attempt for the ‘Most participants in a cookery lesson in 24 hours.’ The current Guinness World ...
Posted May 15, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/05/15/jamie-oliver-seeks-to-set-a-guinness-world-record

Food, water and a few other basic needs: A recap of session 9 of TEDGlobal 2014

This session is all about "Basic Needs." Enjoy these talks on food, innovation, sanitation and more. Sipho Moyo puts two images up on her screen: a Ghanaian cocoa farmer using a primitive wooden rakes, juxtaposed with the glossy Godiva chocolates that would not exist without her. And yet, says Moyo, the Africa director of ONE, the West Af...
Posted October 9, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/10/09/a-recap-of-session-9-of-tedglobal-2014

Gone "whole" fishin': A Q&A with TED ebook author Maria Finn, champion of holistic food

Seafood is delicious, not to mention extremely healthy. But from where TED Book author Maria Finn sits, there are even more benefits to eating fish and shellfish -- because they offer anyone the opportunity to lessen their impact on global systems. An advocate of "whole food" cooking, Finn knows that nearly every part of a fish can be delect...
Posted November 2, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/11/02/gone-whole-fishin-a-qa-with-ted-ebook-author-maria-finn-champion-of-holistic-food

A visit to Ron Finley's LA garden -- plus 5 more TED Talks about growing your own food

In today's TED Talk, guerilla gardner Ron Finley tells the story of how he was issued a citation, and then a warrant for his arrest, all for planting delicious vegetables in the 150 x 10 foot patch of earth in front of his house in South Central, Los Angeles. It's a rousing talk -- one that will make you want to stand up and cheer ... and ma...
Posted March 6, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/03/06/a-visit-to-ron-finleys-la-garden-plus-5-more-ted-talks-about-growing-your-own-food

How genetic engineering can fight disease, reduce insecticide use and enhance food security: Pamela Ronald speaks at TED2015

Pamela Ronald is here to talk about her work as a plant geneticist, about her work "studying genes that make plants resistant to disease and tolerant of stress." But first, she'd like to introduce us to her husband. "This is Raoul. He’s an organic farmer," she says. "People say, 'Really? An organic farmer and a plant geneticist? Can you a...
Posted March 18, 2015
https://blog.ted.com/2015/03/18/why-genetic-engineering-of-plants-is-vital-for-food-security-pamela-ronald-speaks-at-ted2015

Are the workers behind your food treated fairly? How one innovative program is helping improve conditions

Many farmworkers in the US receive inadequate wages and experience harassment, violence and even sexual assault. But thanks to the Fair Food Program, which signs up big companies like McDonald's and Taco Bell, conditions in the tomato fields in several states have been reformed. Here's how it works -- and how you can do your part. Most of us wo...
Posted November 26, 2019
https://ideas.ted.com/are-the-workers-behind-your-food-treated-fairly-how-one-innovative-program-is-helping-improve-conditions

Can you design a phone that’ll be used longer? A refrigerator that discourages food waste? Play the sustainability card game

Leyla Acaroglu aims to make people think about how the choices they make on a daily basis affect the environment. And she aims to make thinking about this fun. In today’s TED Talk, Acaroglu turns her attention to four bits of “environmental folklore,” like the idea that it’s more environmentally sound to opt for the paper bag over the plasti...
Posted February 11, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/02/11/play-the-sustainability-card-game

Super foods superheroes

Guest piece from TEDster Katy Klassman, via the TED Prize blog: "I wish for your help to create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families tocook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity."
Posted August 30, 2010
https://blog.ted.com/2010/08/30/super-foods-superheroes

"World peace will come from sitting around the table": Chef Pierre Thiam chats with food blogger Ozoz Sokoh

Two African cooks walk into a bar; 30 seconds later they are arguing over whose country’s jollof rice is better. Or so the corny joke would go. The truth is, I really had no idea what would happen if we got Senegal-born chef Pierre Thiam (TED Talk: A Forgotten Ancient Grain That Could Help Africa Prosper) and Nigerian jollof promoter Ozoz So...
Posted September 13, 2017
https://blog.ted.com/2017/09/13/world-peace-will-come-from-sitting-around-the-table-chef-pierre-thiam-chats-with-food-blogger-ozoz-sokoh

A surprise from your gut: Good blood pressure

Researchers at Johns Hopkins think they might have come up with a novel way to manage blood pressure. Hint: Microbes. It’s one of the most eye-opening tangents in recent medical research: Scientists have found that the bacteria living in your gut have an unexpected influence over the rest of your body. The three pounds of microbes we host can a...
Posted September 22, 2015
https://ideas.ted.com/a-surprise-from-your-gut-good-blood-pressure

Skyscrapers of wood: Michael Green at TED2013

Architect Michael Green presents an interesting riddle: why are buildings made of wood only a few stories high when trees found in nature are remarkable for their height? Speaking in session 7 of TED2013, Green shares his deep love of wood -- which he first discovered from his grandfather, a woodworker who taught him to "honor a tree's li...
Posted February 27, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/02/27/skyscrapers-of-wood-michael-green-at-ted2013

What will we eat on Mars?

The past, present and future of food in space -- from astronaut ice cream to "Enchilasagna" on Mars. John Glenn was the first American to eat in space. Aboard Friendship 7 in 1962, he squeezed applesauce and puréed beef with vegetables from metal tubes down a straw and into his mouth through a port in his helmet. The world was captivat...
Posted November 21, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/comfort-food-in-space-the-final-frontier

A chef reclaims his Southern culinary history

Researching, celebrating and supporting African American food culture is Michael Twitty’s way to honor and heal those who came before. To chef and blogger Michael Twitty, a plate of stewed okra is much more than a popular soul-food dish -- it’s a form of African American history. For many years, people in New Orleans referred to okra as salade ...
Posted March 30, 2017
https://ideas.ted.com/a-chef-reclaims-his-southern-culinary-history

Meat, deconstructed

In the future, how will we define meat? At home one night earlier this month, I prepared a salad with simulated chicken made from pea and soy proteins. Later I had some cheese derived from almond milk, which I came across, in a testament to its verisimilitude, next to the dairy camemberts and bries at Whole Foods, rather than shelved with the...
Posted November 25, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/meat-deconstructed

TEDWeekends traces the origin of the All-American Chinese takeout

Turns out the fortune cookie that came with your chop suey isn’t actually Chinese … and neither is the chop suey. So where did they come from? In this TED Talk, journalist Jennifer 8. Lee shares the origins of some of America’s favorite “Chinese” food, and takes us on a culinary tour of Chinese restaurants around the world -- whose menus ofte...
Posted April 13, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/04/13/ted-weekends-traces-the-origin-of-the-all-american-chinese-take-out

Jamie Oliver: One year later, five major announcements

"One year ago, the incomparable Jamie Olive came to TED and made a wish that kids should be taught what healthy food was. That families would start cooking again. And that people everywhere would join the fight against obesity." Chris Anderson just said these words onstage at TED, to introduce Jamie Oliver. Who comes to TED with news! Just th...
Posted March 2, 2011
https://blog.ted.com/2011/03/02/jamie-oliver-one-year-later-five-major-announcements
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