Burt Wolf-- what we eat
Subtitle: Disc one : Old World influence
By: Acorn Associates, Ltd
Contributors: Acorn Associates, Ltd; Ambrose Video Publishing
Publisher: Ambrose Video
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Cheesemaking; Cheese industry; Coffee industry; Coffee; Processing; Mediterranean Cooking; Olive industry and trade; Wine industry; Wine; Religious aspects; Food; History
Other titles: What we eat.,; Old World influence
Description: Four episodes from a 13-part series that explores the changes in the way people ate when Christopher Columbus made his voyages and opened up the exchange of plants and animals between the Old World and the New.

Pt. 1 looks at how cheese is made and the role women played in the industry's development. Pt. II looks at the discovery of coffee, its ability to control the economy of major nations and its role in the American and French  Revolutions. Pt. III looks at the history of the foods of the Mediterranean and how they affected people in Europe and the Americas. Pt. IV looks at the importation of winemaking skills to America by the Spanish colonists.
Notes: Videodisc release of the series released to KET public television November 2002.

Hosted by Burt Wolf.

DVD.

Optional English subtitles.
Table of contents: title: Milk's leap towards immortality: the story of cheese in California; title: Taking the high grounds: the story of coffee; title: Simple pleasures: Mediterranean foods in the Americas; title: Here's looking at you, kid: the story of wine making in the Americas..