Zack Denfeld & Cat Kramer with Annette de Deugd

Eat Less, Live More – and Pray for Beans

In collaboration with Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Ageing

What influence will changes in climate, global trade, and power supply have on Dutch eating culture?

‘Eat less, live more… and pray for beans’ is the title of an illustrated cookbook with imaginary recipes from the year 2030. Research into the composition of the recipes is based on the ‘Getting Old Together’ study of the Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Ageing, in which subjects were moving more and eating less. Based on this study, Zack Denfeld, Cathrine Kramer and other members of the Center for Genomic Gastronomy started wondering: what influence will changes in climate, global trade, and power supply have on Dutch eating culture?