Status Updates From Eating and Being: A History...

De la exposición de "Farm to Table: Art, Food, and Identity in the Age of Impressionism", compré este libro en la tienda del SAM; me quedé con la idea de que lo que comemos refleja tanto de lo que somos, lo que sabemos (o pensamos que sabemos) y de nuestro entorno. Lo poco que llevo me está gustando, el autor lleva hablando de su sopa de frijoles por 17 páginas y no me he aburrido 👀

“If some readers find premodern arrangements to some extent attractive, I ask them whether, after all is said and done, they would rather live, eat, and manage our bodies as we now do or as we used to centuries ago. And then I would remind them that nostalgia, which is now thought of just as a wistful hankering after a better past, was once the disease of homesickness… in pressing need of medical treatment.”

“even now, few think that virtue can be pharmacologically compounded” *incorrect buzzer* ozempic