Cuisine and empire : cooking in world history / Rachel Laudan.
Cuisine and empire : cooking in world history / Rachel Laudan.
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Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, c2013.
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G 2013/4776
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English
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xiv, 464 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
Mastering grain cookery, 2,000-300 B.C.E -- The barley-wheat cuisines of the ancient empires, 500 B.C.E.-400 C.E -- Buddhism transforms the cuisines of eastern Asia, 200 B.C.E.-800 C.E -- Islam transforms the cuisines of central and west Asia, 800-1650 C.E -- Christianity transforms the cuisines of...
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Publisher
Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, c2013.
Place of Publication
California
Date Published
c2013.
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Summary
Cuisine and Empire shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers. Laudan's innovative narrative treats cuisine, like language, clothing, or architecture, as something constructed by humans.
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Cuisine and empire : cooking in world history / Rachel Laudan.
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California studies in food and culture ; 43.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-438) and index.
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c2013.
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G 2013/4776
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74VK6ZjB77wd
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9780520266452 (hardback)
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641.5
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991020781349702626
