BOOK REVIEW 19 December 2024 Are you what you eat? How food shapes self-image For centuries we’ve linked what we consume to how we feel about ourselves. By Lizzie Collingham0 Lizzie

Collingham Lizzie Collingham is a historian of food and bye-fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, UK. Her books include The Hungry Empire (2017) and The Taste of War ( 2011).

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Twitter Facebook Email Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Eating and Being: A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves Steven Shapin Univ. Chicago Press (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-04163-x

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