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What’s the Future of Food? A Chef + a Cardiologist Answer | @jonkung + Uma Valeti | Intersections

What does food mean to you, your community and our planet? With ​​personal accounts from the kitchen to the operating room, chef and content creator Jon Kung (@jonkung) and cardiologist Uma Valeti unpack how food cultivates creativity and offers opportunities to connect with and blend cultures. Exploring Valeti’s experiences developing a healthier meat alternative, they…

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What does food mean to you, your community and our planet? With ​​personal accounts from the kitchen to the operating room, chef and content creator Jon Kung (@jonkung) and cardiologist Uma Valeti unpack how food cultivates creativity and offers opportunities to connect with and blend cultures. Exploring Valeti’s experiences developing a healthier meat alternative, they discuss what it takes to overcome the impossible — whether that’s saving a patient’s life or transforming ideas around traditional foods — and how we can all make steps towards more sustainable cooking. (This conversation is part of “TED Intersections,” a series featuring thought-provoking conversations between experts exploring ideas at the intersection of their experience.)

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34 Comments

  1. @SeanLumly

    September 12, 2024 at 2:52 pm

    Up next: what’s the future of computing? An hardware engineer and a janitor that works a computer firms underground parking answer..

  2. @MrLoobu

    September 12, 2024 at 2:52 pm

    Same as the past, or we will die younger and be sicker before. Or did you want to reinvent your own biology?

  3. @r2stik

    September 12, 2024 at 3:26 pm

    11.5 population max on earth. we have plenty of land to grow stuff. point is THAT EVERYBODY MUST GIVE SOMETHING but there is gorillas who only take.

  4. @TheYoutubenarrator

    September 12, 2024 at 7:45 pm

    Hello

  5. @hwoonDeurim

    September 14, 2024 at 7:30 am

    yessss jon kung!!! he’s reallyy great~

  6. @aroojazzcherry

    September 16, 2024 at 7:49 am

    hi there

  7. @jacekpodolski4464

    September 16, 2024 at 8:29 pm

    Polecam proszę o komentarze

  8. @crobinson2624

    September 16, 2024 at 10:25 pm

    Well for starters, if you’re a long time worker in the fast food business, I don’t foresee you having much of a job in the next 10 years as restaurant owners will want to downsize and automate. If you want a real job in the restaurant business, you’re gonna need to work for an independent restaurant.

    • @chelseashurmantine8153

      September 17, 2024 at 2:39 pm

      Well for starters…. Fast food workers were preserved in Pompeii. They’re not going anywhere

    • @chelseashurmantine8153

      September 17, 2024 at 2:40 pm

      “If you want a real job” ok I overestimated you so nevermind

    • @Tib1010

      September 22, 2024 at 5:48 am

      Fast food workers ain’t going anywhere. Sure automation might come in but even then it’s going to take maybe one less person to man the whole store

  9. @MastarA.x

    September 17, 2024 at 10:40 am

    Please reply 😢😢

  10. @aarohiv3527

    September 17, 2024 at 11:02 am

    That’s the most insane combo we didn’t deserve but still needed 🗿

  11. @normanh680

    September 17, 2024 at 11:22 am

    interesting

  12. @ZenMasterChip

    September 17, 2024 at 11:30 am

    What topics would you like to see Ted: Intersections cover in the future? The Moderator posted this in the chat. I thought I’d post that here so as we think about this we could post our suggestions and ideas here.

  13. @KaliHuyo

    September 17, 2024 at 11:48 am

    *Who love FORTNITE ?? 💖*

  14. @wilgarcia1

    September 17, 2024 at 12:01 pm

    I can’t wait for someone to invent nutrition cubes. Just one bite and be fed for the day.

  15. @bigtimbo4236

    September 17, 2024 at 12:20 pm

    Just leave meat the way it is!! And NO, my T-Bones and Ribeyes ARE NOT “unrecognizable by the time they get to the store”!! Whether they are cut up at the store, or cut up at the slaughter house, they will look THE EXACT SAME WAY

    • @Kodack-ki2im

      September 17, 2024 at 11:57 pm

      If you want meat the way it is, eat meat the way it is. Nobody is forcing you to eat lab grown meat. It would be nice to have it as an option though, or are you going to try to tell other people what they can and can’t eat and be a hypocrite?

    • @bigtimbo4236

      September 18, 2024 at 9:16 am

      ​@Kodack-ki2im The thing is, people like Bill Gates have publicly stated that in the future, it WILL NOT be an option. They want all food to be made from insects, plants, and cell manipulation.

  16. @chelseashurmantine8153

    September 17, 2024 at 2:38 pm

    Love this. Loved how much they did not shy away from conversation about meat.

  17. @Wizartar

    September 17, 2024 at 5:46 pm

    its so easy to get people to use this product. Make “old fashioned” meat too expensive due to carbon tax they have to use new and improved meat. Then only the rich will be able to have old fashioned food.

  18. @dab_saget

    September 17, 2024 at 5:49 pm

    Chef? That’s a tiktoker that loves the sound of his own voice more than anything lol come on Ted don’t let your standards drop like this…

    • @roboluigi

      September 21, 2024 at 1:38 am

      Can you elaborate on this comment?

    • @Tib1010

      September 22, 2024 at 5:46 am

      He was a chef prior to becoming an influencer related to food…

  19. @MTMyTails

    September 17, 2024 at 8:08 pm

    Love Jon Kung and can’t wait to taste lab meat

  20. @petergarcia8225

    September 17, 2024 at 10:40 pm

    We call it grace where I am from.

  21. @Kodack-ki2im

    September 17, 2024 at 11:53 pm

    There are real possibilities with lab meat that aren’t possible with natural muscle and we should be getting excited not just for better environmental impact and ending animal slaughter. The product can be more palatable, more tender, more tasty, more juicy, more fatty, than natural meat. Imagine intermuscular fat on the microscopic scale, where the meat looks lean, but has the flavor of fat in it, while overall having less fat. With no connective tissue, no risk of parasites, no blood vessels, the meat can be tailored to the specific qualities that make it delicious, rather than to an animals need to have working muscle to move it’s body. In some ways lab grown meat practices are already in our food chain. Many meat alternatives like Quorn are made using fungal cultures which are grown on a medium or lattice, in order to trick it into growing long fibers like muscle. Instead of muscle cells growing in a lattice though it’s fungal cells.

  22. @Lord-Aizen_99

    September 18, 2024 at 7:52 am

    As an Indian bro didn’t hesitate to say anything. I’m proud of him

  23. @Lord-Aizen_99

    September 18, 2024 at 7:56 am

    As an Asian person, I don’t like spicy foods. Because of this me and my parents always have a conflict.

  24. @YolandeJean-Baptiste-dw6wc

    September 19, 2024 at 1:07 pm

    Y I think you will need it for the behavior changes 😊the ⏲️ 🎶 to the world 🌎 🤔 😅 is a 😊😊of the world in the morning 🌄 🤔 I was not going back on the road I thought it possible but

  25. @1zi1-n

    September 19, 2024 at 2:45 pm

    Honestly, I don’t like listening to anything, especially if it’s not in my native language. I prefer reading instead, but I will try and listen to this podcast since the assignment requires listening to a podcast in English.

    • @1zi1-n

      September 19, 2024 at 3:02 pm

      Oh no, I don’t like this topic. I would prefer a video about sleeping instead. 😢
      Where can I find podcast talks about sleeping?

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