Food
Subtitle: A History
Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co
Published: December 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780333901748
Subjects: Food & Drink / Cookery; History of specific subjects; Popular science; Greene, Graham; 1904-1991; Criticism and interpretation; Greene, Graham,
Description: "The story of food is cultural as well as culinary. The history of how we produce, process, prepare and eat it encompasses ecology as well as gastronomy. In this book, the history is global. It ranges over half a million years, but Felipe Fernandez-Armesto always makes it contemporary, tracing it back from current food trends and food chains, tastes and anxieties."--BOOK JACKET.

"The story of food is cultural as well as culinary. The history of how we produce, process, prepare and eat it encompasses ecology as well as gastronomy. In this book, the history is global. It ranges over half a million years, but Felipe Fernandez-Armesto always makes it contemporary, tracing it back from current food trends and food chains, tastes and anxieties"--Book jacket.