Böcker av Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

"The intricate ways in which human history is formed by food are catacombs full of stories, waiting to be exposed, unraveled, and told. Benjamin Wurgaft and Merry White's vignettes and chapters are full to the brim with food and drink, which are the facts of life. Ways of Eating is a thrilling ride into the human spirit."--Yotam Ottolenghi, James Beard Award-winning author "Who better than a historian-ethnographer team to illuminate the multiple roles that eating has in our lives? Readers will find the authors' juxtaposition of vivid descriptions of specific cooks, artisans, and farmers with a fast-paced history of food engaging and illuminating."--Rachel Laudan, author of Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History "This thoughtful and original book invites us to see food through culture and culture through food. Wurgaft and White--son and mother--make delightful company as they guide us through everything from the birth of agriculture to the lamination in a croissant in modern-day Tokyo. I was informed and entertained in equal measure."--Bee Wilson, author of Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat

Exploring the quest to grow meat in laboratories--a substance sometimes called "cultured meat"--this volume asks what it means to imagine that this is the future of food. The author takes the reader on a tour of the laboratories, kitchens, public debates, and media events that may launch this novel food technology.echnology.

Thinking in Public examines the ambivalence that public political life and the figure of the intellectual provoked in the generation of European Jewish thinkers born around 1900. By comparing Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, and Leo Strauss, Wurgaft offers a new perspective on the relationship between philosophers and politics.