Andalusia

Who feeds us in troubled times?

By Soledad Castillero Quesada, social anthropologist
Hands we cannot see, names we do not knowComer: to eat, Spanish, derived from the Latin comedere Etymologically, the prefix com suggests that we should not eat alone. In any language, the verb “to eat” has something of a humanising effect, because human beings cannot exist without eating. The verb expresses an automatic, instinctive action: eating, after all, meets a biological need, yet this need is also bound up in a set of social and cultural aspects that determine what we eat, with whom, when and how much, where our food comes from, and much more besides....
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