Future of food: how we share it

The way we access food is changing, whether it's your favourite recipe streamed online or home delivery from a Michelin-starred eatery.

Read more of our future of food special:

• What we eat " How we eat
  
• How we grow " How we cook
  

Four chargrilled scallops steam from the plastic box on the kitchen table, each one leaning on a pillow of fancy puffed rice. This is takeaway, but unlike any I've experienced. An earthy-tasting rich green sauce is the pool for three mushroom dumplings that taste, well, expensive. "Hmmm" interesting," says my friend, trying the spicy sauce with a corner of her truffle naan.