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Yohad Zacarias

Yohad Zacarias is a Ph.D. student at the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin.

Review of From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age(2023) by Xaq Frohlich

March 5, 2024

Go to the supermarket, check out the food information detailing the nutritional facts, buy it, and take it home. These everyday actions define our connection with food and shape who we are as consumers. Through social media, we are constantly confronted with information that associates food with health, wellness, and organic products as an endless […]

Review of Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (2019) by Bathsheba Demuth

February 9, 2023

“It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me. But how can I hope toexplain myself here; and yet, in some dim, random way, explain myself I must,else all these chapters might be naught.”[1] These few words show how difficult it was for Herman Melville, in his novel Moby Dick, to […]

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