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I was expecting something like a Prolegomena to a Phenomenology of Gastronomic Essentialism, or at least speculations on whether food exists, whether we can be truly conscious of eating, or how food can be incorporated into the body and turn from looking like bread and cheese to looking like me. (Aristotle worried a lot about that.) I found instead an excellent, authoritative, thoughtful introduction to current food politics. Baggini explores the hot issues of the day: agricultural development, genetic engineering ("Frankenfoods"), vegetarianism, feeding the hungry, whether to eat "ultraprocessed" foods, and others. His background in philosophy shows in his serious, dispassionate consideration of all sides in these controversies, his consultancy with experts and authorities, and above all his judicious and sensible observations on how to resolve them. In contrast to many food writers, he gets his facts straight. (I recently read a cheery book on world food which reduced me to the morbid pastime of counting the number of errors per page.) His final conclusion does move into philosophy, however. He sees a need to "adopt the principles of Holism, Circularity, Pluralism, Foodcentrism, Resourcefulness, Compassion and Equitability." He has discussed the factual side of the first few, but I wish he had given us a full moral-philosophical treatment of the last two.
This book is a great introduction to food politics, a good resource, and a perfect complement (and corrective) to current works on food history and culture. If I were still teaching nutritional courses, I would use it along with a general introduction to nutrition.
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