Cuisine and empire : cooking in world history /
Laudan, Rachel,1944-
Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press,
[2013]
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-438) and index.
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 south and east Asia, 260 B.C.E.-800 C.E -- Islam transforms the cuisines of central and west Asia, 800-1650 C.E -- Christianity transforms the cuisines of Europe and the Americas, 100-1650 C.E -- Prelude to modern cuisines: Northern Europe, 1650-1840 -- Modern cuisines: the expansion of middling cuisines, 1810-1920 -- Modern cuisines: the globalization of modern cuisines, 1920-2000.
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.
Cooking
Food habits
Food