num_pages: 254
description: Examining how the "discovery" of the Americas set in motion a transformation of food cultures around the world, this look at the five-hundred-year revolution in food history explains how Europeans, Americans, and Asians came to eat what they eat today.
language: English
title: Why We Eat What We Eat: How the Encounter Between the New World and the Old Changed the Way Everyone on the Planet Eats
titlecomplete: Why We Eat What We Eat: How the Encounter Between the New World and the Old Changed the Way Everyone on the Planet Eats
genres: Nonfiction, Cookbooks, Food Writing, Food History, Cooking, History, Food
ratings_count: 122
publisher: Summit Books