Cuisine and Empire Cooking in World History

Name: Cuisine and Empire Cooking in World History
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ISBN: 9780520266452

ISBN-10: 0520266455

ISBN-13: 9780520266452

Edition: 2013

Authors: Rachel Laudan

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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 Empireshows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans,…

Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/21/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 488
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.958
Language: English