Few things are as basic to society and culture as food.
This course will examine the history of food, beginning with the Neolithic revolution that gave us agriculture and animal domestication and ending with the quandaries over diet that plague us today. We will study food economically, socially and culturally, looking at how different societies have procured sustenance, and how they have attached different meanings what they consume. Overview of Subject A number of trends characterize the human-food relationship over time. One trend has been the connection between food and civilization. It was the invention of agriculture, the domestication of animals and the abandonment of nomadic for sedentary existence that first led to the rise of cities.