An Edible History of Humanity |
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| Author:
| Standage, Tom |
| ISBN: | 978-1-78239-165-4 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2012 |
| Publisher: | Atlantic Books, Limited
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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Throughout history, food has done more than simply provide sustenance. It has acted as a tool of social transformation, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, military conflict and economic expansion. In
AnEdible History of Humanity Tom Standage serves up a hugely satisfying account of ways in which food has, indirectly, helped to shape and transform societies around the world. It is a dazzling account of gastronomic revolutions from...
More DescriptionThroughout history, food has done more than simply provide sustenance. It has acted as a tool of social transformation, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, military conflict and economic expansion. In AnEdible History of Humanity Tom Standage serves up a hugely satisfying account of ways in which food has, indirectly, helped to shape and transform societies around the world. It is a dazzling account of gastronomic revolutions from pre-history to the present.