Truffles and Trash: Recirculating Food in a Social Welfare State

by Kelly Alexander

On a fragile planet with spreading food insecurity, food waste is a political and ethical problem. Examining the collaborative, sometimes scrappy institutional and community efforts to recuperate and redistribute food waste in Brussels, Belgium, Kelly Alexander reveals it is also an opportunity for new forms of sociality. Her study plays out across a diverse set of locations--including a food bank with ties to the EU, a social restaurant serving low-cost...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469678586
• ISBN13: 9781469678580
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"