Jan. 4th, 2021

Gulp

Jan. 4th, 2021 10:44 pm
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I just finished reading through Gulp, by Mary Roach. Overall a fun read. I thought some of the descriptions of the people interviewed were occasionally unkind, if evocative, and I'm not sure how to feel about that. Maybe it's just not that I'm not used to reading things like this that involve people who are uh, contemporary?

As for the actual gut stuff it seemed like a solidly researched pop science book. Some things I'm still rolling around in my head:
  • the panel of human tasters, for cat food (in spite of the fact that our tastes are entirely different)
  • the unfortunate window into cat food practices in general
  • the extent to which we still don't know what we're doing with the gut microbiome, and human microbiota in general (ear wax transplants!)

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