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Podcast: New Books in Food
Episode: Demet Guzey, “Food on Foot: A History of Eating on Trails and in the Wild” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
Description: Napoleon famously stated that an army marches on its stomach. Of no less importance is the food that keeps exploration moving, whether polar, desert, or on pilgrimage. Demet Guzey‘s Food on Foot: A History of Eating on Trails and in the Wild (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017) is a history of staying alive on the edible, barely edible, and inedible. It is also a history of progress made on several fronts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: nutrition, medical discoveries, early feminism.
In the dawning days of exploration, the notion of the exploration-friendly foods was nonexistent. Ho...