Tuesday, 08 October 2019
Anthony Warner aka The Angry Chef will be sharing his strong views on food, diet and scientific mistruths as part of a new speaker series.
‘Food Tales’ have been organised by the University of Nottingham’s Future Food Beacon of Excellence to highlight how food impacts our lives and how research is working to improve the production, access consumption of food across the world.
Getting angry about food
Anthony Warner is a professional chef with a background in biochemistry who got increasingly irate at claims linking food and health, made by people without qualifications. This irritation led to him creating The Angry Chef blog– an alter ego that gets riled up about many things from fad diets and detoxing to superfoods and veganism.
Anthony is the author of The Truth About Fat and The Angry Chef, a Guardian Best Food Book of the Year and winner in the Health and Lifestyle category at the inaugural Hearst Big Book Awards. He writes regularly for publications including New Scientist, Men’s Health, The Sunday Timesand the Daily Telegraph.
Anthony will be sharing his forthright views at the first Food Tales event taking place at Lakeside Arts on the 15thOctober from 1-2pm.
The world’s food systems are currently facing enormous challenges, and there is a pressing need for change. Unfortunately, this is happening at a time when confusion and misinformation is more prevalent that ever before. I hope to give a little insight into how we can help people cut through this misinformation and reach a better relationship with the food we eat.
Securing the future of food
Researchers from the University of Nottingham’s Future Food Beacon of Excellence have expertise across the food chain – from soil to molecule to meal – to deliver sustainable solutions to global food challenges such as ‘hidden hunger,’ less diverse diets, naturally low nutrients in our staple crops, and an increasing reliance on over-processed foods mean that more than a quarter of the world population are not getting the goodness they need from what they eat.
The Future Food Beacon of Excellence is delighted to be organising Food Tales and welcoming Anthony Warner as our first speaker. We hope these talks will make people think about global food systems and the challenges we face to reconfiguring these systems to provide sufficient healthy food to feed a growing population in a changing world, something our Future Food Beacon of Excellence is working to address through a number of global research projects.
Tickets to the talk are free, but places are limited. For more information and to book click here.
Story credits
More information is available from Lexi Earl, in the School of Biosciences at the University of Nottingham, lexi.earl@nottinngham.ac.ukor Jane Icke, Media Relations Managers for the Faculty of Science at the University of Nottingham, on +44 (0)115 951 5751 jane.icke@nottingham.ac.uk
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About the University of Nottingham
Ranked 32 in Europe and 16th in the UK by the QS World University Rankings: Europe 2024, the University of Nottingham is a founding member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities. Studying at the University of Nottingham is a life-changing experience, and we pride ourselves on unlocking the potential of our students. We have a pioneering spirit, expressed in the vision of our founder Sir Jesse Boot, which has seen us lead the way in establishing campuses in China and Malaysia - part of a globally connected network of education, research and industrial engagement.
Nottingham was crowned Sports University of the Year by The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024 – the third time it has been given the honour since 2018 – and by the Daily Mail University Guide 2024.
The university is among the best universities in the UK for the strength of our research, positioned seventh for research power in the UK according to REF 2021. The birthplace of discoveries such as MRI and ibuprofen, our innovations transform lives and tackle global problems such as sustainable food supplies, ending modern slavery, developing greener transport, and reducing reliance on fossil fuels.
The university is a major employer and industry partner - locally and globally - and our graduates are the second most targeted by the UK's top employers, according to The Graduate Market in 2022 report by High Fliers Research.
We lead the Universities for Nottingham initiative, in partnership with Nottingham Trent University, a pioneering collaboration between the city’s two world-class institutions to improve levels of prosperity, opportunity, sustainability, health and wellbeing for residents in the city and region we are proud to call home.
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