High Culture and Hunger

The idea ThinkFoodGroup raises some interesting questions about the relationship between first-world and third-world food practices. Award-winning Chef José Andrés markets his high-end culinary creations along with a platform of education and advocacy in the form of organizations such as http://www.worldcentralkitchen.org. His mission, “To change the world with the power of food.” His restaurants are advertised as “telling a story of a culture through food.” Check out the high production value of this “food preparation” video. How might we think about the relationship between these different projects and what they represent?

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