Near a thousand tables
Subtitle: a history of food
By: Felipe Fernández-Armesto.
Publisher: The Free Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Food -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.[225]-245) and index.
Table of contents: title: Invention of cooking: the first revolution --; title: Meaning of eating: food as rite and magic --; title: Breeding to eat: the herding revolution: from "collecting" food to "producing" it --; title: Edible earth: managing plant life for food --; title: Food and rank: inequality and the rise of haute cuisine --; title: Edible horizon: food and the long-range exchange of culture --; title: Challenging evolution: food and ecological exchange --; title: Feeding the giants: food and industrialization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries