Does Our Stomach Define Who We Are?

In her new book, Elsa Richardson explores how the gut has been viewed across history. 📖

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-of-the-stomach

"You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potatoe,” an incredulous Scrooge tells the first of his ghostly visitors in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, published in 1843. “There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”