Feasts for the Future

What better futures might be here now? // Commensality: the practice of eating together.

[Feasts for the Future @FeastsFor]

As this project seemingly winds down - in this form at least - I'll be migrating back over to an equally ambivalent twitter presence at @DavidSergeant

If you haven't hopped across already, please do so! (the project website will continue to exist):

https://t.co/aaf8f4qzt0

[Feasts for the Future @FeastsFor]

A belated but very welcome (and possibly final) piece on everyday utopian feasting: @agatha_herman on re-enchanting our daily bread.

https://t.co/zGKFzIm9kt

[Dr Clare Pettinger @DrCPettingerRD]

Some great writings - insights provided here 'Feasts for the Future' '@FeastsFor Dream, vision, future of food, utopia @PlymDietNut @foodplymouth @FoodCities

[Dr Clare Pettinger @DrCPettingerRD]

Prepping for 'feasts of the future' workshop tomorrow. Fantasy scenario for discussion. How do we get here? #utopia #foodinsecurity #narrativesofhope @foodplymouth

[CUSP @CUSP_uk]

Feasts for the Future | Check out our friends at @FeastsFor, for ideas from communities, activists, writers and scholars on how you might use an everyday meal to bring a better future closer >> https://t.co/9D506leH8E

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"... Rumi's theme: 'The satiated man and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread."

@IdriesShah
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[Feasts for the Future @FeastsFor]

What’s wrong with chlorinated chicken? https://t.co/FWYEFkYuXV

[Feasts for the Future @FeastsFor]

"... from now on I will only imbibe coffee beans which have been exported in limited quantities from smallholder farmers in war-torn Yemen through military checkpoints."
https://t.co/ExMvzQjKnf

[South Dartmoor Community Energy @SDCEnergy]

On one utopian summer evening in June.....
we got together with other community energy people to talk about how we imagine alternative futures for our communities.
We shared an incredible feast (catered by the amazing RedPod food) whilst... https://t.co/VwkO5YGHOl

[Feasts for the Future @FeastsFor]

After a slight hiatus - New Year's indigestion? - a wonderful new addition to our series on everyday utopian feasting: this time JASON KÖNIG of @StA_Classics on the ancient Greek symposium and its afterlives in antiquity:

https://t.co/76bdvZvp6o

[Feasts for the Future @FeastsFor]

European farms could grow green and still be able to feed population https://t.co/xjtBqlV56T

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"When I first came to the UK about a decade ago, I was struck by the sheer number of pre-cooked meals on offer. They were neatly arranged at the entrance to the supermarket where their variety was proudly presented ..." Iwona Janicka

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"For much of the next five millennia, feasts occurred in remarkably similar contexts across most of the ancient Near East ..." Jason R Kennedy

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"More than mere happenstance, cultural evolution has shape and direction. It has memory and it is concerned with the future. It is human." Tim Waterman

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[Feasts for the Future @FeastsFor]

"Wayfarers at inns carried knives and brandished them at the table to cut food. A careless word, an unintended bump, might bring the blade into play for more than carving the meat ..." Michael Jackson

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““Are you sure you want to do this over dinner?” the abstainer may reply. “I’m happy to discuss my ethical objections – why I think it is wrong to raise and kill sentient creatures in objectionable conditions just for our own enjoyment ..." Garrett Broad

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[Feasts for the Future @FeastsFor]

Some hae meat and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it;
But we hae meat, and we can eat,
And sae let the Lord be thankit.

Burns - see also Ruth Levitas on this verse: https://t.co/0TZ7lgTSNd

[Feasts for the Future @FeastsFor]

“ ... 'enough is a good as a feast.' ... Hungry people invented that phrase. It’s not a capitalist sentiment, in fact it reverses capitalist logic, but it could become part of a post-capitalist structure of feeling." K S Robinson

https://t.co/alWiKVdOyp

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"Sit down by candle light. Take a bite. Close your eyes, and imagine the power of the ancient bulls being absorbed into your body. Pour a glass of rich red wine and tell yourself, like the Hungarians, that you are drinking bull’s blood ..." Brian Hayden

https://t.co/iq3jP1Rv7k

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"Other factors ensured that the cancelled banquet was now bound to be used as a vehicle for advertising broader, and in some ways more pressing, problems ..." Pamela Pilbeam

https://t.co/zUR5WJoOO9