num_pages: 640
description: "Excels in its thoroughness, its epic sweep, and its rootedness in culinary tradition...it's also a pleasure."—Salon.com. "Now that gastronomy and the culinary arts in general are finally being accepted as legitimate academic subjects, it is time we had available to us a copious and worthy sourcebook...This is exactly what we have needed."—Julia Child.
language: English
title: Food: A Culinary History from Antiquity to the Present
titlecomplete: Food: A Culinary History from Antiquity to the Present (European Perspectives)
genres: Gastronomy, Foodie, Food Writing, Cookbooks, Food, Food History, Nonfiction, Cooking, History, Food and Drink
ratings_count: 199
publisher: Penguin Books