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Culinary Capitalism

by Shamus Khan | August 22, 2014 | Summer 2014

Sociologist Shamus Khan writes about life of the modern food system, and how it may well be the greatest triumph of capitalism.

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Shamus Khan is in the sociology department at Columbia University. He is the author of Privilege: The Making of an Ado- lescent Elite at St. Paul’s School.

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