What Do We Eat?

Key Selling Points

• Showcases a range of STEM topics, such as engineering design, agriculture and biology, as well as social studies, geography and history.
• Each topic is presented through bite-sized stories about food, covering the Egyptian Pyramid builders, the ancient Roman army, World War II paratroopers, Mars astronauts and more.
• Focuses on themes of resourcefulness, innovation, resilience and cooperation, offering many specific, positive examples of humans working together to solve problems and get a meal on the table.
• This book is timely, as it discusses the current inequities in access to food as well as the global issue of food waste. As well, it considers the future of food in light of the climate crisis and a growing population, and highlights both innovative technologies and ideas from our past that might help us in the future, such as robotics and sensing, indoor vertical farms, lab-cultured meat, seaweed farming and the eating of insects.
• Asks readers to think critically about food, has links to numerous curriculum themes and has been vetted by experts in food security, agriculture, history and environmental studies.
• The author is an established writer of nonfiction titles for young people, including Cities, the award-winning Fresh Air, Clean Water and Design Like Nature, all published by Orca.