Food in World History
Providing a comparative and comprehensive study of culinary cultures and consumption throughout the world from ancient times to present day, this book examines the globalization of food and explores the political, social and environmental implications of our changing relationship with food.\ Including numerous case studies from diverse societies and periods, Food in World History examines and focuses on:\ \ how food was used to forge national identities in Latin America\ the influence of...
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Providing a comparative and comprehensive study of culinary cultures and consumption throughout the world from ancient times to present day, this book examines the globalization of food and explores the political, social and environmental implications of our changing relationship with food.Including numerous case studies from diverse societies and periods, Food in World History examines and focuses on:how food was used to forge national identities in Latin Americathe influence of Italian and Chinese Diaspora on the US and Latin America food culturehow food was fractured along class lines in the French bourgeois restaurant culture and working class cafesthe results of state intervention in food production how the impact of genetic modification and food crises has affected the relationship between consumer and product.This concise and readable survey not only presents a simple history of food and its consumption, but also provides a unique examination of world history itself.
1The first world cuisine82The Columbian exchange193Sugar, spice, and blood274Nouvelle cuisines345Moral and political economies426The industrial kitchen557Cuisine and nation-building638Empires of food719Migrant cuisines7910Guns and butter9111The green revolution10012McDonaldization and its discontents10813Culinary pluralism113
