Book description
This book explores the civilizing role that cooks and cooking have played in world history from Plato to Marx, from carnivores to vegetarians.
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1 author picked A History of Cooks and Cooking as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The book honors James Boswell’s intuition that defines humans as the “cooking animal,” as humans are the only species living on earth that cook their food. It is an interesting account of the world from a cook’s perspective. Symons maintains that to be truly human we need to become better cooks and to think of cooks as “sharers of food.” His account of the history of cooking is especially interesting and well researched
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