Wonder Foods magic & ritual -Audrey Truschke

-Audrey Truschke

and teases out a host of often surprising philosophical insights

and highlights the power of Sun Tzu's thinking in everyday life

but every time I turned around

acclaimed translator and poet Yasmine Seale and literary scholar Paulo Lemos Horta offer both a corrective and a definitive work: an elegant

Wonder Foods magic & ritual -Audrey TruschkeBetween 1850 and 1950, experts and entrepreneurs in Britain and the United States forged new connections between the nutrition sciences and the commercial realm through their enthusiasm for new edible consumables. The resulting food products promised wondrous solutions for what seemed both individual and social ills. By examining products like Gail Borden's meat biscuit, Benger's Food, Kellogg's health foods, Fleischmann's yeast, and food yeast,