Near a thousand tables : a history of food / Felipe Fernández-Armesto.
Near a thousand tables : a history of food / Felipe Fernández-Armesto.
Near a thousand tables : a history of food / Felipe Fernández-Armesto.
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New York : The Free Press, c2002.
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N641.3009/5
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English
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Physical content
xiii, 258 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
1. The Invention of Cooking: The First Revolution -- 2. The Meaning of Eating: Food as Rite and Magic -- 3. Breeding to Eat: The Herding Revolution: From "Collecting" Food to "Producing" It -- 4. The Edible Earth: Managing Plant Life for Food -- 5. Food and Rank: Inequality and the Rise of Haute Cui...
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Publisher
New York : The Free Press, c2002.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c2002.
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"In Near a Thousand Tables, Oxford historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto tells the fascinating story of food as cultural as well as culinary history - ecology as well as gastronomy.".
Near a Thousand Tables reveals what microwave families and tube-fed astronauts have in common with pre-social hominids; why India is the source of street food in Cairo and court food in Isfahan; why the name "avocado" is derived from an Aztec anatomical term."--BOOK JACKET....
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Near a thousand tables : a history of food / Felipe Fernández-Armesto.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2002.
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N641.3009/5
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74Vvj0A2VzoX
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ISBN
0743226445 (hbk.)
9780743226448 (hc)
0743226445 (hc)
9780743227407
0743227409
9780743226448 (hbk.)
DDC
641.3009
MMS ID
991015287349702626
