With a football field-sized vertical garden presented by the United States, and a French pavilion by Jean Pierre Dalberra that took food growing to new artistic splendor, the 2015 World’s Fair theme of ‘Feeding the World’ showcases 145 nations’ answers to providing food sustainability in a creative way.
This was not a way for biotech to showcase their latest frankenfood, instead, the Fair, being held in Milan, Italy this year, focuses on local, and traditional agricultural products with new innovate ways of sharing food resources with the world’s population.
The overarching theme is clear – we can grow more food on less acreage than we’ve previously assumed we needed. And we can do it in a way to tantalize the most discerning palate as well. There were food trucks to show off some of the foods that were grown featuring everything from the hottest American cuisine to traditional Korean barbeque.
A key gastronomical draw was the Margherita pizza that was 500 meters long, breaking the previous world’s record for longest pizza. The pizza took 80 volunteers 12 hours to construct and utilized 150 liters of Italian olive oil.
Not only do we have ample resources to grow food sustainably, but the farmers, chefs, and organizers of this event proved we could do it with style and gourmet flair.
You can watch a full video of the 2015 World’s Fair above.
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Expo2015 (Featured image courtesy of Expo2015)
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