In 2009, the brilliant Louise O. Fresco, president of Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands (and former assistant director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, among other bright points in her distinguished bio…), delivered an illuminating TED talk, “We need to feed the whole world.”
Her focus was bread, which she calls “the mainstay of modern life” and “the basic, most-fundamental food we’ve had in the last 10,000 years.”