Jenny Linford explores the humanity of eating through the lens of the British Museum collection

There are countless books that look back at human history through a food lens but Jenny Linford's Repast: The Story of Food is unusual. It centers on objects from the famed British Museum . These objects span multiple continents and date from pre-history to the modern day. This look at how we as a species have depicted our relationship to food over eons is striking, both for the similarities we can find and the differences. Evan Kleiman: Was there a particular object when you started to actually work on the project that just jump started everything for you? Jenny Linford: Thank you for your intro. You're right, because the British Museum has got the most enormous collection. It holds over 8 million objects, 2 million of those online. So I went and walked around the museum. And it's int