Wall Street Journal reviews book by ISAW's Claire Bubb

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Claire Bubb on the review of her newly published book, How to Eat: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers (Princeton, 2025) by Julian Baggini, of the Wall Street Journal. 

The review finds Bubb's books to be "an entertaining and insightful survey of the ways in which conventional dietary wisdom in every age is a combination of the perennial and the faddish, the sensible and the ludicrous." It goes on to highlight aspects of ancient dietary wisdom that still resonate today, including the promotion of individually tailored diets, seasonal eating, and the moral dimensions not just of food consumption but also of food marketing. It ends by quoting one of the book's extracts from Seneca on the unhealthy consequences of a food industry that aims to entice people to eat even when they are not hungry, calling it "even more true today than when it was written."

Bubb's next book will continue to explore food in antiquity, this time from the perspective of how different ancient thinkers understood digestion to work and what implications these theories had for deciding what constitutes a healthy diet.

Check out the Wall Street Journal review here: https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/how-to-eat-review-diet-tips-of-the-ancients-6f7c2f52