Unveiling the Hidden Forces Shaping Our Relationship with Food: A Provocative Review of Amber Husain’s "Tell Me How You Eat"
Halfway through the program, Husain abandoned it in favor of psilocybin treatments — synthetic versions of mushrooms, which sent her “straight into a version of twinkling hell.” Her psychedelic guides offered little help; “[t]hey wanted their participants to answer the kinds of questions I wanted to ask.”
So Husain decided to find the answers for herself, poring through an enormous range of approaches to eating and not eating across centuries. Much of the book’s great pleasure is seeing which anecdotes across time she weaves with her own path.
