Book Clubs

Two of my books, The Omnivorous Mind: Our Evolving Relationship with Food (Harvard University Press) and Home: How Habitat Made Us Human (Basic Books) are appropriate for book clubs. If your club buys 8 or more copies of the book, I am happy to do a Skype session in which we can all discuss the book or you can ask me questions.

Some questions (gently) suggested for discussion purposes:

The Omnivorous Mind

1. Are you a fan of crispy foods?
2. What is your earliest food memory?
3. Have you ever had a food that you consciously had to learn to like? If so, how did it go?
4. Have you ever had a major change in diet, other than for weight loss or gain?
5. How would you characterize your own “theory of food?” What were its strongest personal and cultural influences?
6. In your own life, what are your strongest emotional and cognitive links to food and eating?

Home

1. How many places have you called “home” over your life?
2. Have you ever been homesick? If so, how did you stop being homesick?
3. What do you think and feel when you see a homeless person?
4. How does your own home shape your view of the world? How does it prepare you to deal with the outside world?
5. Have you consciously made major changes to your dwelling in order to enhance the feeling of home?
6. In the book, I call “home” a kind of perceptual trick–how do you think your feelings of home trick you in other ways?

Please contact me for more information or to book a Skype session.