Anthropologist and museum director Rane Willerslev and screenwriter and TV chef Adam Price take the audience on a fast-paced, entertaining journey through world history, told through what humans ate along the way.
The talk traces how our species went from a hungry, insignificant ape on the African savannah to the most dangerous animal at the top of the food chain, now on course to threaten its own survival. It looks at how cooking may have shaped the growth of the human brain, how food and drink helped drive the move to settled life and the building of cities, and how hunger and thirst have defined the lives we know. What was our first meal, and how will our last one look?
