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Cuisine and Empire

Cooking in World History

Cuisine and Empire( )
Author: Laudan, Rachel
Series title:California Studies in Food and Culture Ser.
ISBN:978-0-520-28631-3
Publication Date:Apr 2015
Publisher:University of California Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $29.95
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:488
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Agriculture & Food
Cooking / History
Cooking / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 1.1 Inches
Book Weight:1.4 Pounds



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