Benjamin Aldes WurgaftBenjamin Aldes Wurgaft is a writer and historian and a visiting scholar in anthropology at MIT. He was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at MIT and a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the New School for Social Research. His essays n food and other topics appear regularly in publications from Gastronomica to the Los Angeles Review of Books to the Hedgehog Review. Read More Read Less