Welcome to FP's first-ever food issue in which we travel across this hungry planet of ours at a time when skyrocketing prices are dictating politics from the Middle East to Madagascar. The special section, which travels from the yuppies who've appropriated the miracle food of the Incas to a darkened kitchen in Baghdad where women battered by war came together to celebrate life, explores the food wars of the 21st century, debunks the conventional wisdom about hunger and poverty, shows us 10 ways we really are what we eat, and asks leading experts to predict the future of food.
Eat, Drink, Protest
By Annia Ciezadlo
1 Billion People Are Hungry
By Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
The Baguettes of War
By Anna Badkhen
Street Eats
An FP Slide Show
The 21st-century Food Wars
By Lester R. Brown
How Food Explains the World
By Joshua E. Keating