Benjamin A. Wurgaft
Writer and historian focused on food history and culture, co-author of Ways of Eating: Exploring Food Through History and Culture (2023), and contributor of historical perspectives and narrative analysis in the episode.
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Dec 17, 2023 • 1h 3min
Benjamin A. Wurgaft and Merry White, "Ways of Eating: Exploring Food Through History and Culture" (U California Press, 2023)
Merry White, a Boston University anthropologist who blends sensory anthropology with personal vignettes, and Benjamin A. Wurgaft, a food historian and storyteller, chat about food across time and cultures. They explore the origins of agriculture, culinary authenticity and its politics, sensory history and smell, convergent foods like dumplings, and how migration, trade, and social rules shape what we eat.
