Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft is a writer and historian, and currently a Visiting Scholar in Anthropology at MIT. He was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the New School for Social Research. His essays on food and other topics appear regularly in publications from Gastronomica to the Los Angeles Review of Books to the Hedgehog Review. He is @benwurgaft on Twitter.

Acknowledgments
1 • Cyberspace/Meatspace
2 • Meat
3 • Promise
4 • Fog
5 • Doubt
6 • Hope
7 • Tree
8 • Future
9 • Prometheus
10 • Memento
11 • Copy
12 • Philosophers
13 • Maastricht
14 • Kosher
15 • Whale
16 • Cannibals
17 • Gathering/Parting
18 • Epimetheus
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index