Eating and Being: A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves

by Steven Shapin

What we eat, who we are, and the relationship between the two.

Eating and Being is a history of Western thinking about food, eating, knowledge, and ourselves. In modern thought, eating is about what is good for you, not about what is good. Eating is about health, not about virtue. Yet this has not always been the case. For a great span of the past--from antiquity through about the middle of the eighteenth century--one...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022683221X
• ISBN13: 9780226832210
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 560 Pages