Meals to come : a history of the future of food / Warren Belasco.

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006], ©2006.

xiii, 358 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-331) and index.

Pt. I. Debating the future of food: the battle of the think tanks. The stakes in our steaks ; The debate: Will the world run out of food? ; The deep structure of the debate. -- Pt. II. Imagining the future of food: speculative fiction. The utopian caveat ; Dystopias. -- Pt. III. Things to come: three cornucopian futures. The classical future ; The modernist future ; The recombinant future.