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Food & Power: How Corporations Shape What We Eat and Drink Phil Howard

The largest packaged food and beverage makers constantly run into the limited size of our stomachs in their efforts to increase their power. There is only so much we can physically eat or drink, and only...

Why Does Food Need Philosophy? Robert Valgenti

Philosophers who study food often spend a good deal of time explaining why philosophy should pay more attention to food and how it might change the way philosophy goes about its business. The hope is that philosophy might become...

The Immigrant Restaurateur and Hierarchy of Taste: Cuisine, Culture, and Power Krishnendu Ray

Krishnendu Ray explores the history of how immigrants in the restaurant industry have shaped American notions of good taste ― even as they themselves occupy the lower echelons of the...