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Why Food Matters

By: Paul Freedman
Narrated by: Jack de Golia
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Summary

An award-winning historian makes the case for food’s cultural importance, stressing its crucial role throughout human history.

Why does food matter? Historically, food has not always been considered a serious subject on par with, for instance, a performance art like opera or a humanities discipline like philosophy. Necessity, ubiquity, and repetition contribute to the apparent banality of food, but these attributes don’t capture food’s emotional and cultural range, from the quotidian to the exquisite.

In this short passionate audiobook, Paul Freedman makes the case for food’s vital importance, stressing its crucial role in the evolution of human identity and human civilizations. Freedman presents a highly enjoyable and illuminating account of food’s unique role in our lives, a way of expressing community and celebration, but also divisive with regard to race, cultural difference, gender, and geography. This wide-ranging book will be a must-listen for food lovers and all those interested in how cultures and identities are formed and maintained.
©2021 Paul Freedman (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing
Gastronomy History
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important to hear this

this book seems to be telling us something we already know but haven't thought deeply enough about.
it is interesting and awakened ideas that lay dormant.

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