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Near a thousand tables a history of food

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  Crane Library, 2015

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• Author: Fernández-Armesto, Felipe
  Date:

  Issued

  2013
  Contents:

  • Invention of cooking: the first revolution
  • Meaning of eating: food as rite and magic
  • Breeding to eat: the herding revolution: from "collecting" food to "producing" it
  • Edible earth: managing plant life for food
  • Food and rank: inequality and the rise of haute cuisine
  • Edible horizon: food and the long-range exchange of culture
  • Challenging evolution: food and ecological exchange
  • Feeding the giants: food and industrialization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
  Subject(s): Food | History
  Original Publisher: New York : Free Press, 2004, c2002
  Language(s): English