Belly - by Nora Bateson (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Belly is Nora Bateson's cookbook with almost no recipes. Moving through kitchens, gardens and hospital wards, she traces how food threads through family, illness, migration, labour, empire and ecology. Meals become " warm data" stories that reveal the systems shaping our lives while feeding our capacity for tenderness, protest and imagination. Written in her characteristically intimate, insurgent voice, Belly invites us to ask what - and whom - we are really feeding, and how we might nourish each other differently.

About the Author

Nora Bateson is an award-winning filmmaker, artist, lecturer, research designer and author. She is the founder and creator of Warm Data and the practices of the Warm Data Lab and People Need People Online. Nora wrote, directed, and produced the documentary, 'An Ecology of Mind', a portrait of her father, Gregory Bateson. Her work brings the fields of biology, cognition, art, anthropology, psychology, and information technology together into a study of the patterns in ecology of living systems. Nora Bateson is an award-winning filmmaker, artist, lecturer, research designer and author. She is the founder and creator of Warm Data and the practices of the Warm Data Lab and People Need People Online. Nora wrote, directed, and produced the documentary, 'An Ecology of Mind', a portrait of her father, Gregory Bateson. Her work brings the fields of biology, cognition, art, anthropology, psychology, and information technology together into a study of the patterns in ecology of living systems.