Rachel Laudan

Cuisine and Empire

Cooking in World History Volume 43

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Probing beneath the apparent confusion of dozens of cuisines, this book shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers. It emphasizes how cooking turns farm products into food.

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Produktdetails

• California Studies in Food and Culture
• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 149mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 672g
• ISBN-13: 9780520286313
• ISBN-10: 0520286316
• Artikelnr.: 42025290

Autorenporträt

Rachel Laudan is the prize-winning author of The Food of Paradise: Exploring Hawaii's Culinary Heritage and a coeditor of the Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science.

Rezensionen

"Magnificent . . . Some of Laudan's 'diffusion maps' of particular styles of cuisine are miniature masterpieces of cultural history." - TLS