Join Eve Turow-Paul’s tour through the stranger corners of today’s global food and lifestyle culture, the connections between top trends, how we find well-being, and the impacts of the Digital Age. Author of Generation Yum: How the Millennial Generation’s Love for Organic Fare, Celebrity Chefs and Microbrews Will Make or Break the Future of Food, Hungry: Avocado Toast, Instagram Influencers and Our Search for Connection and Meaning.
Eve Turow-Paul’s Speech Topics:
Hungry
We wait in lines around the block for scoops of cookie dough. We photograph every meal. We visit selfie performance spaces and leave lucrative jobs to become farmers and craft brewers. Why? What are we really hungry for? In Hungry, Eve Turow-Paul provides a guided tour through the stranger corners of today’s global food and lifestyle culture and looks at the connections between top trends, how we find well-being, and the impacts of the Digital Age.
How are 21st-century innovations and pressures redefining people’s needs and desires? How does “foodie” culture, along with other lifestyle trends, provide an answer to our rising rates of stress, loneliness, anxiety, and depression? Weaving together evolutionary psychology and sociology with captivating investigative reporting from around the world, Turow-Paul reveals the modern hungers—physical, spiritual, and emotional—that are driving today’s top trends:
- The connection between the “death” of the cereal industry and access to work email on our smartphones
- How posting images of our dinners on social media reflects a hunger for human connection in an increasingly isolated world
- The ways “diet tribes” and boutique fitness gyms substitute for organized religion
- How access to round-the-clock news relates to the blowback against GMO foods Why urban and suburban born Millennials are becoming farmers, brewers, and woodworkers
- How wellness retreats, astrology, plant parenthood, DIY movement, and other top trends ease modern anxieties
- Why lifestyle “eating local” might not only be a key solution to the climate crisis, but also key to solving our current global sense of disconnection
Additional Topics:
- Trends & Human Behavior in the Digital Age
- Millennials & Generation Z
- Restrictive Diets (Gluten-Free, Paleo, Keto)
- New food technologies (RFID, blockchain,spectrometers)
- Mukbang & global influencer culture
- Food as community
- DIY food trends
- Return to nature (i.e. farming, gardening,biophilia)
- DIY movement
Eve Turow-Paul’s Bio:
Eve Turow-Paul is a globally-recognized thought-leader on food culture and the Digital Age. As a writer and advisor, Turow-Paul examines the ways in which 21st century innovations and pressures are re-shaping the human experience, and thus, people’s wants and needs. With her unique blend of investigative reporting paired with academic and lifestyle market analyses, Turow-Paul unravels the why behind today’s most disruptive food and lifestyle trends.
Turow-Paul utilizes her decade of empirical research to advise Fortune 500 companies, start-ups and independent entrepreneurs on how to connect with and better serve people in the Digital Age. Her writing on food trends and human behavior has appeared in a number of publications including The Chicago Tribune, Plate, The Village Voice, The Atlantic, Forbes, Refinery29, Huffington Post and more. She is the author of A Taste of Generation Yum: How the Millennial Generation’s Love for Organic Fare, Celebrity Chefs and Microbrews Will Make or Break the Future of Food. Recently, she was prominently featured in the documentary film WASTED! The Story of Food Waste, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival. Turow-Paul’s second book, Hungry: Avocado Toast, Instagram Influencers and Our Search for Connection and Meaning, will be released in June 2020.
