" radish of Uzbekistan," the latest book by Gilles Fumey is like a sequel its " Geopolitics Food " released in 2008. It invites us to go round the world eating habits as a starting point with the radishes from Samarkand to the Dairy, the famous painting by Vermeer in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. It makes us aware of large areas that have shaped culinary history of cultures and peoples, how culinary traditions are beginning to disappear in favor of imported foods, often less expensive and lower quality, shaped by the food industry. This globalization of food induced health problems, hitherto ignored by local people.
This book is like an echo of WSF just ended in Dakar, where the subjects a sovereign power and agriculture which respect local traditions were at the heart of the debate. In Africa, for example, there is an increase of landless peasants, workers turned into performers. Many cultures replace those that feed. Millet, the staple diet is replaced by cassava, imported from Brazil!
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