Citizens of the Refrigerator: A Gastronomic Dystopia

They were grown to nourish us. We taught them to hate us.Bright Tomato believes paradise awaits him beyond the garden: the chance to nourish a human being. Inside the refrigerator, he waits with an ageing artichoke, a sharp-tongued apple, and citizens whose hopes are fading with their freshness.Then he enters the kitchen. Edible flesh is discarded. Living things are forgotten beneath the worktop. The hands that cultivated him seem just as willing to destroy him. As faith gives way to anger, Bright Tomato begins to imagine another purpose for the citizens of the refrigerator.But what will they become if they follow him?AN AWARD-WINNING TURKISH ORIGINALFirst published in Türkiye as Buzdolabı Vatandaşları, Emre Turan's novel received the 2024 Feed the Future Award. A pioneering work of Turkish gastronomic fiction, it brings food waste and the possibility of a sustainable future into the heart of a dark literary fable.When you open the refrigerator, whose side are you on?