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Overthink

Food with Shanti Chu

Overthink

Ellie Anderson, Ph.D. and David Peña-Guzmán, Ph.D.

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Education

4.7549 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Ellie and David are serving… dinner! In episode 88 of Overthink, your favorite podcasters explore the philosophy of food, discussing everything from Glaucon’s plea for fancy meals in the Republic, to the rich ways in which food is intertwined with our individual and cultural identities. They welcome food critic and philosophy professor Shanti Chu for a lively conversation about the gendering of meals, the ethics of food systems (lab-grown meat, anyone?), the future of restaurants, and much more. Bon appetit!

Check out the episode's extended cut here!


Works Discussed

Carol J. Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat
Shanti Chu, “Nonviolence through Veganism” and “Public Philosophy and Food: Foodies, Ethics, and Activism”
Claude Fischler, "Food, Self, and Identity"
A. Breeze Harper, Sistah Vegan
Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity
Plato, Republic
Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Overthink.

0:17.3

The podcast that nourishes soul and body.

0:21.0

I'm Dr. Ellie Anderson.

0:23.3

And I'm Dr. David Pena Guzman.

0:25.7

And I promise we didn't plan this, but David, you and I both showed up to the recording this morning with our breakfast.

0:33.3

So we literally have food with us and I am eating while you are talking or I'm going to be eating while you're talking.

0:40.7

Breakfast quotation marks because it's morning time for you.

0:44.8

So it is your breakfast, but it's 7.13 p.m. for me.

0:48.4

So I am having dinner in the form of a banana and pringles.

0:53.4

It is an extremely unhealthy breakfast with the

0:55.9

exception of the banana. I forgot. I figured breakfast since you were eating a banana, but yes, you are

1:00.6

indeed in Europe right now and I'm in California, so we are on very different time zones. It's

1:04.9

breakfast for me, though. Yeah. And the reason I need to tell you, the reason that I'm eating a banana

1:10.1

in Pringles is because sadly,

1:12.4

and this is connected to what we'll be talking about today, I got a major case of food poisoning

1:17.8

this week.

1:19.4

About two days ago, my stomach staged a revolt against the rest of my body.

1:26.7

And it became clear that I ate some kind of contaminated watermelon that I bought from

1:32.9

the corner store, a little store called coxinell in parrots, which is just like a really

1:39.3

cute name and it means ladybug and they have an adorable logo of a ladybug.

1:43.3

But with contaminated watermelon

1:45.7

that has ravaged my body for the last 48 hours. So I've been eating nothing but bananas,

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