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Meals Matter - A Radical Economics Through Gastronomy (Hardcover)
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Meals Matter - A Radical Economics Through Gastronomy (Hardcover)
Series: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
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Until the early nineteenth century, political philosophy and
economics were dining companions. Both took up fundamental
questions of how we should feed one another. But with the rise of
corporate capitalism, modern economics lost sight of its primary
task and turned away from the complexities of real people's
sustenance in favor of the single-minded pursuit of money. In Meals
Matter, Michael Symons returns economics to its roots in the
distribution of food and the labor required. Setting the table with
vivid descriptions of conviviality, he offers a gastronomic
rebuttal to the narrow worldview of mainstream economics. Engaging
with a wide variety of thinkers-including Epicurus, Enlightenment
philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, the gastronomer
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, and economic theorists from Francois
Quesnay and Adam Smith through the neoliberals-Symons traces how we
went astray and how we can find our way back to a more caring,
sustainable way of life. He finds hope for shared "table pleasure"
in institutions like community gardens, street markets, and
banquets and in eating fresh, local, and "slow" food. An
innovative, historically based argument at the intersection of food
history and social thought, Meals Matter challenges us to reject
the economics of greed in favor of a community-based economics of
sharing and gastronomic enjoyment.
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