What to Eat in a Warming World (Deep Dive)
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Food — delicious, nutritious, and plentiful — is essential to life. But the way we’re producing and consuming it is anything but friendly to life on the planet, and we need a new plan. In this pair of conversations, celebrity chef Daniel Humm shares his vision for transitioning the famed Eleven Madison Park to a vegan restaurant, and two innovators present new technology that can create delicious food out of thin air.
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