Food Industry — future food

Sustainably shaping the future of food Minimalist values engrained in Japanese cuisine paves the way for sustainable eating. An edible box garden represents a sustainable food cycle with ‘trees’ created from moss and ‘soil’ created from a bed of nukadoko. Sustainability depends on respect and care for all stages of the food cycle. When Buddhism spread through Japan more than a millennium ago, people adopted a vegetarian lifestyle. In the thirteenth century, under the influence of Zen Buddhism, the tea ceremony (cha no yu) developed. It positioned mild cuisines as dignified and superior to dishes that use a lot of...