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Food As Agent Of Change: 'An Edible History' Author Tom Standage doesn't think food is history's central motivating force. Rather, as he writes in his book An Edible History of Humanity, Standage thinks of food as more of "an invisible fork" prodding humanity along.

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Food As Agent Of Change: 'An Edible History'

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Food As Agent Of Change: 'An Edible History'

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Tom Standage is also the author of A History Of The World In Six Glasses. Judah Passow hide caption

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Author Tom Standage doesn't think food is history's central motivating force. Rather, as he writes in his book An Edible History of Humanity, Standage thinks of food as more of "an invisible fork" prodding humanity along.

"After all," he continues, "everything that every person has ever done, throughout history, has literally been fueled by food."

An Edible History of Humanity
By Tom Standage

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