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Faculty Profile: Anne McCants
Building a historical meal from scratch is a perfect reflection of McCants’ methods as an economic historian.
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For economic historian Anne McCants, it’s the little things that count. Something as simple as dinner can be full of historical signifiers. In a popular IAP seminar she teaches at MIT, called “Old Food: Ancient and Medieval Cooking,” McCants treats food as a cultural object that reveals important clues about class, technology, and health in the past. Read more at MIT OpenCourseWare.