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The Philosophy of Eating
First edition
AuthorAlbert Bellows
LanguageEnglish
Published1867 (Hurd and Houghton)
Publication placeUnited States
Pages342

The Philosophy of Eating was written by Albert Bellows, published in 1867 with the posthumous edition descriptor line Late Professor of Chemistry, Physiology, and Hygiene, and reprinted in later years to the current Philosophy of Eating. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by Bellows, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District Massachusetts stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry.

An introductory section by Bellows dedicates this edition to "The Five Thousand Ladies" who attended his lectures from 1838 to 1858.

In the preface, Bellows states that we have excellent practical treatises on Agriculture and Horticulture, and every intelligent farmer or gardener may learn what element is deficient, in order to cultivate his grapes, his vegetables, or his grains; and having also chemical analyses of these fruits and grains, and of the materials from which to obtain his deficient elements, he has the means of adapting his soil to all desirable productions.

Anthropologist Robert L. Freedman bibliography published in 1981 a book called Human Food Uses: A Cross-cultural, Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography, Volume 1.[1] This bibliographic work of that time cited in its very thorough coverage for anthropological assay of food in culture.

A follow on work to this book How Not to Be Sick guided the reader into a deeper set of specifics started with this original work. George Davey who published a 2013 book called The Philosophy of Eating Break the Trance.[2]

Davey consolidated into a modernized with scientific breakdown in relation to more modern processed foods that entered the western cultural diets of the new millennium.

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