Review: An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage (TSS)

[fashion_piranha]

An Edible History of Humanity

by Tom Standage

I want to say that this book is the history of civilization’s relationship with food. (Short summary: We need it, so we get it, or we die.)  But what Tom Standage writes is a little more complicated than that. It is more a story about food’s influence over societies, and how the quest to control its

Comments

[saru_kage]

The obvious question: But is it actually edible?

[fashion_piranha]

Yes.
It tasted pulpy.

[ext_106285]

food is one of the few unifying factors that all people have. We all sing and dance and tell stories, we all have children, and we all eat :-) Well, they could be unifying... perhaps I should say universal. :-/

Interesting point that he doesn't deal with the processed food industry. As it's titled "A History," you could be right about him not wanting to project too much into the future.

[niamh_sage]

Sounds like this book would be a good one for fantasy writers/world-builders to read (as research, I mean).