Michal’s Reviews > Eating and Being: A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves > Status Update

“If some readers find premodern arrangements to some extent attractive, I ask them whether, after all is said and done, they would rather live, eat, and manage our bodies as we now do or as we used to centuries ago. And then I would remind them that nostalgia, which is now thought of just as a wistful hankering after a better past, was once the disease of homesickness… in pressing need of medical treatment.”