Every day, each of us goes on a hunt for food. For some of us, that hunt means simply opening a fridge or ordering take-out. But for some of us, that hunt is a little more difficult. In fact, it is estimated that globally a billion people go hungry every day.

But the hunt for food is only part of the story. We also grow it, ship it, sell it, buy it, cook it and - mmmm - taste it.

Many of us control our diets in pursuit of greater health, like vegetarians and vegans and macrobiotics. But many of us are also controlled by food, like those of us who are sugar addicts, or who are anorexics or bulimics or yo-yo dieters, plagued by guilt because we don't look like super-skinny supermodels (who maintain their skeletal figures by eating almost nothing!)

And then there are the Genetically Modified Foods (GMO), called 'frankenfoods' by some and 'the key to ending global famine' by others. Are transnational food giants helping solve the world's food crisis or making it worse?

Some of us live on farms (though fewer and fewer of us, as family farms are steamrolled by agri-business). Some of us flip burgers in fast-food joints. Some of us still need Mom to show us how to cook an egg. But for all of us food is a daily reality.

We've come a long way since our ancestors hunted and fished and gathered nuts and berries. From the days when we were a tasty part of the food chain. We still need food to live, but how do we live with food today?