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Camilla Arndal Andersen: What happens in your brain when you taste food

With fascinating research and hilarious anecdotes, neuroscientist Camilla Arndal Andersen takes us into the lab where she studies people's sense of taste via brain scans. She reveals surprising insights about the way our brains subconsciously experience food -- and shows how this data could help us eat healthier without sacrificing taste.
https://www.ted.com/talks/camilla_arndal_andersen_what_happens_in_your_brain_when_you_taste_food

Louise Fresco | TED Speaker

A powerful thinker and globe-trotting advisor on sustainability, Louise Fresco says it's time to think of food as a topic of social and economic importance on par with oil -- that responsible agriculture and food consumption are crucial to world stability.
Food and agriculture expert
https://www.ted.com/speakers/louise_fresco

Ali Kashani: A friendly, autonomous robot that delivers your food

Meet the friendly robot that could deliver your next burrito. Ali Kashani introduces us to Postmates' autonomous delivery robot and explains how it could help reduce carbon emissions and free up valuable real estate in cities everywhere. Learn more about how it was specially designed to navigate complex social interactions on busy sidewalks to b...
https://www.ted.com/talks/ali_kashani_a_friendly_autonomous_robot_that_delivers_your_food

Miranda Brown: A brief history of dumplings

As archaeologists pored over ancient tombs in western China, they discovered some surprisingly well-preserved and familiar relics. Though hardened over 1,000 years, there sat little crescent-shaped dumplings. So who invented these plump pockets of perfection, and how did they spread across the world? Miranda Brown traces the tangled, mysterious ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/miranda_brown_a_brief_history_of_dumplings

Robert Lustig: Sugar: Hiding in plain sight

While sugar is easy to spot in candy, soft drinks and ice cream, it also hides out in foods you might not expect -- including peanut butter, pasta sauce and even bologna! Robert Lustig decodes confusing labels and sugar's many aliases to help determine just how much of that sweet carbohydrate makes its way into our diets. [Directed by The Tremen...
https://www.ted.com/talks/robert_lustig_sugar_hiding_in_plain_sight

Activities

Deepen your understanding of Reworking the Western Diet with these carefully crafted educational exercises that let you get the most out of this TED Studies subject. Activity 1 There's not one universally accepted definition of "sustainable consumption." Based on what you've learned in Reworking the Western Diet, how would you define the term? W...
https://www.ted.com/read/ted-studies/sustainable-consumption/activities

Homaro Cantu | TED Speaker

The executive chef at Chicago's Moto restaurant, Homaro Cantu created postmodern cuisine and futuristic food delivery systems.
Chef
https://www.ted.com/speakers/homaro_cantu

Sara Menker: A global food crisis may be less than a decade away

Sara Menker quit a career in commodities trading to figure out how the global value chain of agriculture works. Her discoveries have led to some startling predictions: "We could have a tipping point in global food and agriculture if surging demand surpasses the agricultural system's structural capacity to produce food," she says. "People could s...
https://www.ted.com/talks/sara_menker_a_global_food_crisis_may_be_less_than_a_decade_away

Feras Fayyad: The real-life superheroes helping Syrian refugees

Society has a set of stories it tells itself about who refugees are and what they look like, says documentarian and TED Fellow Feras Fayyad. With his films, he's on a mission to separate the facts about refugees from fiction, as a form of resistance -- for himself, his daughter and the millions of other Syrian refugees across the world. A harrow...
https://www.ted.com/talks/feras_fayyad_the_real_life_superheroes_helping_syrian_refugees

Shilpa Ravella: How the food you eat affects your gut

The bacteria in our guts can break down food the body can't digest, produce important nutrients, regulate the immune system, and protect against harmful germs. And while we can't control all the factors that go into maintaining a healthy gut microbiome, we can manipulate the balance of our microbes by paying attention to what we eat. Shilpa Rave...
https://www.ted.com/talks/shilpa_ravella_how_the_food_you_eat_affects_your_gut

A.J. Jacobs: The evolution of the coffee cup lid

Author A.J. Jacobs shows how the coffee cup lid was perfectly designed to give you a full sensory experience while drinking. This video was inspired by the original work of Louise Harpman and Scott Specht and their book "Coffee Lids: Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture."
https://www.ted.com/talks/a_j_jacobs_the_evolution_of_the_coffee_cup_lid

Jennifer 8. Lee: Why 1.5 billion people eat with chopsticks

Author Jennifer 8. Lee explains how the chopstick spread from the East to the West -- and was designed to give you the perfect bite.
https://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_8_lee_why_1_5_billion_people_eat_with_chopsticks

Birke Baehr | TED Speaker

Birke Baehr wants us to know how our food is made, where it comes from, and what's in it. At age 11, he's planning a career as an organic farmer.
Aspiring organic farmer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/birke_baehr

Vishal Vaid: Hypnotic South Asian improv music

Vishal Vaid and his band explore a traditional South Asian musical form in this mesmerizing improv performance. Sit back and let his music transport you.
https://www.ted.com/talks/vishal_vaid_hypnotic_south_asian_improv_music

Peggy Chan: A chef shares: Here's how we can feed the planet without hurting the climate 

Our food choices are affecting our planet: Food production accounts for a staggering one-third of greenhouse gas emissions. To reduce this toll, we need to develop food literacy, understanding how our diets impact our health and our environments, says plant-based chef Peggy Chan. She explains how better food literacy — whether you're a food-indu...
https://www.ted.com/talks/peggy_chan_a_chef_shares_here_s_how_we_can_feed_the_planet_without_hurting_the_climate

Jennifer 8. Lee | TED Speaker

Jennifer 8. Lee reports on culture and city life.
Reporter
https://www.ted.com/speakers/jennifer_8_lee

Dan Barber | TED Speaker

Dan Barber is a chef and a scholar -- relentlessly pursuing the stories and reasons behind the foods we grow and eat.
Chef
https://www.ted.com/speakers/dan_barber

Lisa Dyson: A forgotten Space Age technology could change how we grow food

We're heading for a world population of 10 billion people -- but what will we all eat? Lisa Dyson rediscovered an idea developed by NASA in the 1960s for deep-space travel, and it could be a key to reinventing how we grow food.
https://www.ted.com/talks/lisa_dyson_a_forgotten_space_age_technology_could_change_how_we_grow_food

Sam Kass | TED Speaker

Sam Kass's work connects nutrition and education in an effort to make sure future generations thrive.
Food entrepreneur
https://www.ted.com/speakers/sam_kass

Josette Sheeran | TED Speaker

Our generation is the first in history with enough resources to eradicate hunger worldwide. Josette Sheeran, the former head of the UN World Food Programme, shares a plan.
Anti-hunger leader
https://www.ted.com/speakers/josette_sheeran

Renata di Tullio: Por qué deberíamos comer más bichos

Have you ever considered crickets, houseflies or grasshoppers for a dinner menu? In this fun and easily digestible talk, science educator Renata di Tullio makes a case for bugs as nutritious and sustainable food sources.
https://www.ted.com/talks/renata_di_tullio_por_que_deberiamos_comer_mas_bichos

Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of food

The wheat, corn and rice we grow today may not thrive in a future threatened by climate change. Cary Fowler takes us inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a vast treasury buried within a frozen mountain in Norway, that stores a diverse group of food-crop seeds ... for whatever tomorrow may bring.
https://www.ted.com/talks/cary_fowler_one_seed_at_a_time_protecting_the_future_of_food

Emily Leproust: How synthetic biology can improve our health, food and materials

What if we could use biology to restore our balance with nature without giving up modern creature comforts? Advocating for a new kind of environmentalism, scientist and entrepreneur Emily Leproust rethinks modern sustainability at the molecular level, using synthetic biology to create green alternatives. From lab-developed insulin and disease-re...
https://www.ted.com/talks/emily_leproust_how_synthetic_biology_can_improve_our_health_food_and_materials

Peter Reinhart | TED Speaker

Master breadmaker Peter Reinhart is also a teacher, author and theologian. Through his lectures and numerous cookbooks, he channels the science of baking into deep, spiritual lessons -- and dispels stale myths about the nature (and flavor) of good, wholesome bread.
Baker
https://www.ted.com/speakers/peter_reinhart

Waste no food: A teenager’s bold idea to end hunger

About this video: "When you don’t know where your next meal is coming from, it’s all-consuming. You can’t focus on anything else." Moved by the round-the-block lines he witnessed while working at a food shelter for a school community service project, 16 year-old Kiran Sridhar founded the "shared economy" platform Waste No Food which connects lef...
https://www.ted.com/watch/ted-institute/ted-unilever/waste-no-food

Ron Finley | TED Speaker

Ron Finley grows a nourishing food culture in South Central L.A.’s food desert by planting the seeds and tools for healthy eating.
Gardener
https://www.ted.com/speakers/ron_finley

Introductory essay

Written by the educators who created Reworking the Western Diet, a brief look at the key facts, tough questions and big ideas in their field. Begin this TED Study with a fascinating read that gives context and clarity to the material. Sweet and salty, meaty and mega-sized: Introducing the Western diet If you live in a Western culture, chances ar...
https://www.ted.com/read/ted-studies/sustainable-consumption/introductory-essay

Summary analysis

After watching the collection of talks on Reworking the Western Diet, read a thoughtful recap of the major points in this TED Study, and learn where experts believe things are headed. The speakers in Reworking the Western Diet serve up lots of big questions, many of which don't (yet) come with easy answers. What's the future of food? Can we tran...
https://www.ted.com/read/ted-studies/sustainable-consumption/summary-analysis

Maryn McKenna: Antibiotics changed our food. Here's how to change it back

In this sobering talk, health writer Maryn McKenna explains how the use of antibiotics in food production transformed modern agriculture and the way the world eats -- but not for the overall better. With stories highlighting the success of activists, policymakers and the general public to reform production practices, McKenna stresses one key poi...
https://www.ted.com/talks/maryn_mckenna_antibiotics_changed_our_food_here_s_how_to_change_it_back

Ben Goldacre | TED Speaker

Ben Goldacre unpicks dodgy scientific claims made by scaremongering journalists, dubious government reports, pharmaceutical corporations, PR companies and quacks.
Debunker
https://www.ted.com/speakers/ben_goldacre
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