This is a HeadGum Podcast.

You know, as much as we like to think we have control over what we eat and how we eat,

the truth is that so many of our habits are the result of the decisions and desires of people

from decades and even centuries ago.

If you want to recalibrate how you think about food and where it comes from,

well I can recommend three incredible audio books from Penguin Random House Audio.

I know you are going to love these.

First, you can permanently upend the notion that we freely and equally choose what we put on our plates

with ruined their crops on the ground by

Andrea Freeman the first and definitive history of the use of food in United States

law and politics as a weapon of conquest and control or you can listen to Michael Pollan,

one of the most trusted food experts in America

as he takes you on an absorbing journey

that will change the way you think about

our place in nature in the botany of desire.

Let me tell you, I read this book over a decade ago. our place in nature in the botany of desire.

Let me tell you, I read this book over a decade ago,

it absolutely blew my mind,

and I still think about it on an almost daily basis

and the incredible insights I got from it.

Or you can take a deeply researched and entertaining dive into refrigeration,

tracing its evolution from scientific mystery to globe-spanning infrastructure

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