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| Antipasto/Antojitos/Amuse-Bouches: Food for Thought | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| First Course: From Raw to Cooked: Prehistory, Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, India | |
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| Prehistory | |
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| The Ancient Agricultural Revolution | |
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| The Fertile Crescent: The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers | |
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| Egypt: The Nile River | |
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| China: The Yellow (Huang He) River | |
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| India: The Indus River | |
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| Second Course: Grain, Grape, Olive: Ancient Greece and Imperial Rome | |
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| The Mediterranean Sea | |
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| Greece | |
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| The Roman Empire | |
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| Third Course: Crazy Bread, Coffee, and Courtly Manners: Christendom, Isum, and Byzantium in the Middle Ages, 500-1300 | |
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| Christendom: The Early Middle Ages in Western Europe | |
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| The Muslim Empire: Baghdad | |
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| The Eastern Roman Empire: Byzantium | |
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| Culture Clash: The Crusades | |
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| Christendom: The Late Middle Ages in Europe | |
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| Fourth Course: Tea, Chocolate, and the First Cookbook: Medieval Asia, The Americas, and Renaissance Europe to 1500 | |
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| Asia | |
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| Europe | |
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| The American Empires | |
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| Columbus Sets Sail for the Americas: 1492 | |
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| Fifth Course: The Columbian Exchange and the Protestant Reformation: Sugar and Vice in the Sixteenth Century | |
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| Old World to New | |
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| New World to Old | |
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| Japan | |
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| Europe | |
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| Sixth Course: Thanksgiving, Hutspot, and Haute Cuisine: Seventeenth-Century America, The Netherlands, Russia, France | |
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| Colonial America | |
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| The Scientific Revolution | |
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| The Golden Age of the Netherlands | |
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| The Russian Bear | |
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| France | |
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| Seventh Course: Election Cake and "Let Them Eat Cake": The American and French Revolutions-The Eighteenth Century and the Enlightenment | |
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| The Enlightenment | |
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| America: From Colony to Country | |
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| The French Revolution: "Let Them Eat Cake" | |
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| The Napoleonic Era: 1799-1815 | |
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| Napoleon's Aftermath | |
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| Eighth Course: From Coyotes to Coca-Cola: The Nineteenth Century in America | |
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| "Go West, Young Man!" | |
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| The South | |
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| The Civil War-1850-1865 | |
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| Reconstruction-1865-1877 | |
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| The West: The Railroad and the Indian Wars-1860s-1886 | |
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| The Gilded Age | |
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| Nineteenth-Century Health Food Movements | |
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| Ninth Course: Sanitation, Nutrition, Colonization: The Nineteenth Century in Europe, Asia, and Africa | |
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| Germs and Genes | |
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| The British Empire | |
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| Africa Enslaved: Working for Peanuts | |
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| Inida: "The Jewel in the Crown" | |
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| China: Tea and Opium | |
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| Eastern Europe | |
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| Italy: Unified Country, Regional Cuisine | |
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| Tenth Course: The Purity Crusade, Cuisine Clossique, and Communal Food: The Early Twentieth Century in Europe and the United States | |
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| The New Immigrants and the Melting Pot | |
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| Progressives and the Purity Crusade | |
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| Dining De Luxe in the Belle Epoque | |
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| World War I and the Russian Revolution | |
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| Eleventh Course: Prohibition, Soup Kitchens, Spam, and TV Dinners: The Roaring Twenties, The Depression, World War II, and the Cold War | |
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| The Roaring Twenties in the United States | |
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| The Great Depression and the New Deal | |
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| World War II | |
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| Post-World War II and the Cold War | |
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| The Fast-Food Fifties | |
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| Twelfth Course: Revolutions in Cuisines and Cultures: From "Bon Appetit" to "Bam!" The 1960S into the New Millennium | |
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| The Sixties: Revolutions in Color | |
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| The Seventies: Food Revolutions | |
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| The Eighties: Political and Restaurant Revolutions | |
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| The Nineties: The Rise of the Celebrity Chef | |
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| The New Millennium and the Future of Food | |
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| French Pronunciation | |
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| Italian Pronunciation | |
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| Major Wars and Battles (Not Ancient) | |
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| Selected Cookbook and Food Books Chronology | |
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| Notes | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |