Cookery was essential to the evolution of humanity. It was also essential to the creation of society.

Cold war audiences couldn’t help believing their human ancestors shared their Hollywood-stoked bellicosity.

Humanity has made itself with many hands, through much turmoil.

As John Maynard Keynes once said, those who do not follow a theory are in the grip of a hundred discredited theories.

I’m embarking on a years-long journey through human history to discover for myself the modern paideia (ideal education).