Ways of Eating: Exploring Food Through History and Culture

Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft is a writer and historian, whose books include Ways of Eating: Exploring Food Through History and Culture (University of California Press, 2023), co-written with Merry White; Meat Planet: Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food (UC Press, 2019); and Thinking in Public: Strauss, Levinas, Arendt (Penn, 2016).

Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

Merry (“Corky”) White is a professor of anthropology at Boston University, with specialties in Japanese studies and food. Her books include Ways of Eating: Exploring Food Through History and Culture (University of California Press, 2023), co-written with Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft; Coffee Life in Japan (UC Press, 2013), and Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval (UC Press, 2002).

Merry White

“Good to Think With,” but Also Delicious: A Conversation Between Merry White and Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"We all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top." — Hunter S. Thompson

Food & Drink

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

Merry (“Corky”) White is a professor of anthropology at Boston University, with specialties in Japanese studies and food. Her books include Ways of Eating: Exploring Food Through History and Culture (University of California Press, 2023), co-written with Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft; Coffee Life in Japan (UC Press, 2013), and Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval (UC Press, 2002).

Merry White

Articles

“Good to Think With,” but Also Delicious: A Conversation Between Merry White and Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft