Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Near a Thousand Tables

A History of Food

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Produktbeschreibung

Critically acclaimed as a landmark in culinary writing, this savory and engrossing account by a "New York Times" Notable author leaves no placemat unturned as it chronicles the fascinating story of food across the centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Free Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780743227407
• ISBN-10: 0743227409
• Artikelnr.: 22251438

Autorenporträt

Felipe Fernández-Armesto is a Professorial Fellow of Queen Mary, University of London, and a member of the Modern History Faculty at Oxford University. He is the author of thirteen books, including Millenium: A History of the Last Thousand Years and Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface 
One
The Invention of Cooking
The First Revolution 
Two
The Meaning of Eating
Food as Rite and Magic 
Three
Breeding to Eat
The Herding Revolution: From "Collecting" Food to "Producing" It 
Four
The Edible Earth
Managing Plant Life for Food 
Five
Food and Rank
Inequality and the Rise of Haute Cuisine 
Six
The Edible Horizon
Food and the Long-Range Exchange of Culture 
Seven
Challenging Evolution
Food and Ecological Exchange 
Eight
Feeding the Giants
Food and Industrialization in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries  
Notes 
Index