Recipes for Success
Review for the TLS of What We Eat: A Global History of Food, Edited by Pierre Singaravélou and Sylvain Venayre. Translated by Stephen W. Sawyer. Columbia University Press. (Unedited, submitted version.)
Review for the TLS of What We Eat: A Global History of Food, Edited by Pierre Singaravélou and Sylvain Venayre. Translated by Stephen W. Sawyer. Columbia University Press. (Unedited, submitted version.)
Julian Baggini argues that we can use philosophical tools to identify the key principles that should govern a food system fit for the 21st century and beyond, drawing on the empirical base of how humans have fed themselves across the globe and history.
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Julian Baggini embarks on a thought-provoking exploration of food across cultures, uncovering the best and worst of how societies approach feeding themselves. From cutting-edge technologies like cultured meat to the ethics of aquaculture and food commodification, Baggini exposes the big ideas shaping our plates—and our futures.
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Why we should not romanticise French food culture, in the latest microphilosophy newsletter.
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Review of Food Fight: From Plunder and Profit to People and Planet by Stuart Gillespie for The Literary Review, April 2025