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Essays on food processing

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Aug 8, 2025ACX

Your Review: My Father’s Instant Mashed Potatoes

Through the lens of instant mashed potatoes, the author explores how modern society creates inferior imitations of real things, and what we lose by accepting these substitutes.

33 min read 4,961 words

Jun 4, 2019SSC

Book Review: The Secret Of Our Success

Scott reviews 'The Secret of Our Success' by Joseph Henrich, which argues that culture, not raw intelligence, is key to human success and explores the evolutionary basis for cultural transmission.

52 min read 7,907 words

anthropology book review cultural evolution