The In Vitro Meat Cook Book - Hardcover

Van Mensvoort, Koert; Grievink, Hendrik-Jan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9063693583 ISBN 13: 9789063693589

Publisher: BIS Publishers, 2014

Synopsis

With the world's population expected to reach nine billion people by 2050, it becomes impossible to produce and consume meat like we do today.
 
In vitro meat, grown from cells in a laboratory, could provide a sustainable and animal-friendly alternative. Yet, before we can decide if we are willing to eat in vitro, we must explore the new food culture it will bring us.
 
The In Vitro Meat Cookbook presents 45 recipes that explore and visualize what in vitro meat products might be on our plate one day.

About this title

About the Author

Koert van Mensvoort: is the head of the Next Nature Lab at the Industrial Design Department of the Eindhoven University of Technology, a position he has held since 2003. He received a Master of Science degree in computer science, specializing in computer graphics from the Eindhoven University of Technology and a doctorate from the Eindhoven University of Technology in 2009 for his thesis What You See Is What You Feel. Van Mensvoort is the founder and director of the Next Nature Foundation, a design-and-think tank based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Hendrik-Jan Grievink: is a graphic designer, editor and researcher, living and working in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He holds a master’s degree in design from the Sandberg Institute, the postgraduate course in design from the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. He teaches design research at the graphic design department of ArtEZ institute of the Arts in Arnhem, The Netherlands and has travelled extensively through China. Hendrik-Jan’s design practice in the broadest sense is concerned with the impact of visual culture on our daily lives. Widely recognized is Fake For Real, a memory game about the tension between reality and simulation (BIS publishers, 2007) and Brand Memory, a memory game about logo’s (BIS publishers, 2011). Hendrik-Jan is editor of NextNature.net and has been responsible for the art direction of most Next Nature related projects, like the NANO Supermarket. Together with Koert van Mensvoort, he edited and designed the book Next Nature: Nature Changes Along With Us (Actar, 2011).

From the Back Cover

Hello meat lovers, hello vegetarians. We need to talk about the future of meat. With the world's population expected to reach nine billion people by 2050, it becomes impossible to produce and consume meat like we do today.

In vitro meat, grown from cells in a laboratory, could provide a sustainable and animal-friendly alternative. Yet, before we can decide if we are willing to eat in vitro, we must explore the new food culture it will bring us.

This cookbook presents 40 recipes that explore and visualize what in vitro meat products might be on our plate one day. The recipes move beyond inferior fake-meat replacements into the creative prospects that emerge with the technology.

As in vitro meat is still being developed you cannot cook the recipes just yet, however, they will provide abundant food for thought and discussion on the future of meat.

Edition details

• Publisher: BIS Publishers
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9063693583
• ISBN 13: 9789063693589
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160