The Secret Life of Ordinary Objects - Part 1: Salt, Syntax, and Sips: A Global History of What We Eat
The Secret Life of Ordinary Objects ← Series Home The human compulsion to eat and drink is the most elemental force driving civilization. For millennia, our relationship with food has been a foundational story—a narrative of ingenious adaptation, geographical constraint, and profound cultural evolution. Yet, buried beneath the surface of the commonplace is a startling truth: the objects we ingest, the tools we use to convey them, and the methods by which we preserve them are rarely just about sustenance. They are, fundamentally, documents of economics, political power, and social hierarchy. ...