Carolyn Steel's book Hungry City is a must read for anyone interested in how food has shaped the past and present. In her book Carolyn uses food as a means to better understand and plan cities and explains how a better relationship between urban dwellers and what they eat can help to solve the food problem.

Inspired by Steel’s book, the CITIES platform recently started running Old Amsterdam Food Tours: a city walk and cycling tour that takes in the places that developed out of the human need for food, long before there were supermarkets where it sometimes seems as if food magically appears on the shelves. Centuries ago food – and food producers – had a much more prominent place in the city. How were cities designed around them?

 

On Sunday 24 March, Carolyn Steel and  the people from CITIES are organising a special edition of the Old Amsterdam Food Tour. On foot and by bike, Carolyn and Anke will take you to the places that have played an important role in Amsterdam’s food history, such as the Dam, Nieuwmarkt and the Cattle Market. Of course, the tour will end at the Food Film Festival's own food market, because we hope that the emergence of markets will contribute to building a better relationship between people and food.

 

 

 

 

The Old Amsterdam Food Tour is run by CITIES. If you are interested in taking the tour but have already bought film tickets for Sunday, or the tour is sold out, you can still reserve a place for another date.