Introduction 1
1 Cooking for Survival 19
2 Ecological Crisis Menu 31
3 Anthropocene Specials 49
4 Fake Foodies 71
5 Human Deli 91
6 Bug Buffet 117
7 Future Superfoods 143
8 Future Junk Food 163
9 Fantastic Cuisine 179
10 Outlook 191
Acknowledgments 199
Notes 203
Selected Bibliography 233
Illustration Credits 251
Index 255
Zane Cerpina is a curator and writer working within experimental
and digital arts.
Stahl Stenslie is a curator and researcher specializing in
experimental and emerging aesthetics, and disruptive technologies
who has held positions at Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Oslo
National Academy of the Arts, and Aalborg University.
Included in Dezeen's top 11 architecture and design books of
2022
“By turns enlightening and profound, difficult and preposterous,
Cerpina and Stenslie’s account is an impassioned call for
‘visionary thinking’ and dismantling food taboos. Climate-concerned
cooks with an open mind will find much to chew on in this
surprising culinary tour.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Cerpina and Stenslie don’t think humans should shy away from
creative solutions to our food problems. To that end, they hope the
book reaches as many eaters as possible, and fast. They began
writing it six years ago, and since then, a host of
catastrophes—COVID-19, massive forest fires, and wheat shortages
caused by the war in Ukraine among them—have exacerbated their
sense of urgency. But they remain optimistic. Even as things may
seem to get worse, Cerpina says, “we are likely to thrive if our
imagination is able to take the challenge.”
—Atlas Obscura
“If you are looking for solutions to the great problems of mankind,
you will probably not expect them to be found in a cookbook. But
that is exactly what The Anthropocene Cookbook wants: to provide
answers to the question of how humans can deal with impending
catastrophes such as food shortages and the loss of species.”
—DER SPIEGEL
"Cerpina and Stenslie's anthology confronts the idea that the
Anthropocene era — the time during which humans have had a
substantial impact on the Earth's environment — entails a radical
reassessment of what we eat, and how...The Anthropocene Cookbook's
chapters traverse topics such as alternative approaches to food
security, new potentially edible ingredients and the culinary
possibilities offered by the human body. Cerpina and Stenslie — who
independently are both artists, curators and researchers — embarked
on the book to try to provoke creative thinking about the
existential challenges facing humanity."
—Dezeen
“Authors Zane Cerpina and Stahl Stenslie present more than sixty
thought-provoking and stomach-churning art projects, such as
Evaristti’s spaghetti and meatballs. Using out-of-the-box thinking,
their goal is to reimagine the future of food in a radical way in
order to understand humanity’s future in the age of the
Anthropocene.”
—Gastronomica
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