Edible Cinema

August 2018 Issue

Nutrition, energy, pleasure. As a basic and necessary part of each day of our lives, what we eat may deserve more scrutiny than most of us give it. What is it? Where does it come from? What is it made up of? What does it do to us? As well as more esoteric questions like "Why doesn't banana flavoring taste anything like bananas?" and "Which vitamin is essential in preventing cosmic disaster?" Films in this program, in interrogating the past, present, and future of consumption will chart all aspects of our relationship with food.