Science in the Kitchen-December 2025: The Last Refuge of Our Taste Buds: Food Sovereignty (1)

Abstract

Do you remember the days when tomatoes smelled like tomatoes? Or the days when our mothers and grandmothers would chase after those first okra and artichokes, heralding the arrival of their season? Today, searching for that old excitement among the rows of standard-sized, tasteless, and odorless vegetables lined up on supermarket shelves has become an almost impossible adventure. Because we no longer know where the food we eat comes from, in which soil, and with whose labor it was grown. Food has been uprooted, transformed into a global commodity. And it is precisely in the midst of this sense of loss, this alienation, that a concept is rising as a refuge, a way out: food sovereignty.