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Our need to eat once located us: it told us where we belonged. Now that link is broken, how do we find ourselves in the world? How, in particular, do we find that special place we call ‘home’?

Bone broth

We no longer value food in the industrialised world, paying as little for it as possible.

By working out how to feed ourselves, we have found our place in the world.

We are all familiar, of course, with the truism “You are what you eat.” But over the past generation we have learned more and more about the nature of our hungers and how incredibly malleable they are. Scientists and authors like Brian Wansink and Michael Pollan have pointed out how our hungers are learned.

Rule #1: Avoid “white” carbohydrates (or anything that can be white). Rule #2: Eat the same few meals over and over again. Rule #3: Don’t drink calories. Rule #4: Don’t eat fruit. Rule #5: Take one day off per week and go nuts. For the finer points,