In this episode, Amy Bentley (food historian, NYU) talks about the cultural and historical reasons we eat as we do. Amy and Kevin talk about why w eat three meals a day, how COVID might disrupt our eating habits, and the five historical factors that made baby food possible in the industrial age.
4:46 Why does Amy study food history? (Spoiler: it has to do with the role of gardening during World War II.)
11:54: How industrialization led to our three-meal-a-day eating schedule
23:01 - How has COVID messed with our three-meal-a-day cultural regimen?
34:29 - How baby food influenced (and was influenced by) culture
36:38 - The perfect storm of factors that gave rise to baby food (industrialization, discovery of fruits and vegetables' importance, advertising, sexualization of breasts, etc)
54:10 - Baby food and its politicization via the "mommy wars"
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Crispin's recent essay, "Western Philosophy as White Supremacism" ... Dan accuses Crispin of ahistorical revisionism ... Descartes as a product of his age ......
In this episode, Dan talk with Crispin Sartwell of Dickinson College about Dan's essay, "Wanting and Doing." We discuss action, desire, and powerlessness as...