I also highly recommend Laudan's blog, full of well argued threads of food history that go beyond pat-and-dry preconceptions of foodways! https://www.rachellaudan.com/blog
LOL! Plus he's clearly lost in a vast system he can't comprehend. How do you comprehend a complex network of billions upon billions of weights? Is there any way you can get on top of the system to observe its operations, to map them out?
I also highly recommend Laudan's blog, full of well argued threads of food history that go beyond pat-and-dry preconceptions of foodways! https://www.rachellaudan.com/blog