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28%OFFRachel Laudan - Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History - 9780520286313 - V9780520286313
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Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History

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Description for Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History Paperback. Probing beneath the apparent confusion of dozens of cuisines, this book shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers. It emphasizes how cooking turns farm products into food. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 488 pages, 68 b/w photographs, 10 maps, 6 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; HBT; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 668.
Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world's great cuisines from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present in this superbly researched book. Probing beneath the apparent confusion of dozens of cuisines to reveal the underlying simplicity of the culinary family tree, she shows how periodic seismic shifts in culinary philosophy" beliefs about health, the economy, politics, society and the gods prompted the construction of new cuisines, a handful of which, chosen as the cuisines of empires, came to dominate the globe. Cuisine and Empire shows how ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
California Studies in Food and Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520286313
SKU
V9780520286313
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-32

About Rachel Laudan
Rachel Laudan is the prize-winning author of The Food of Paradise: Exploring Hawaii's Culinary Heritage and a coeditor of the Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science.

Reviews for Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History
"During my forty year culinary career, there have been a select number of books that became touchstones, volumes that seemed to arrive just when inspiration was needed or direction was appropriate, books that somehow enhanced my sense of having found my calling. The newest addition to the list is a work of culinary history by Rachel Laudan."
Virginia B. ... Read more

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