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Cuisine and empire: cooking in world history

By Rachel , Laudan

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press;Credo Reference
Year
2014
ISBN
9780520266452, 9780520954915, 9781784026004, 178402600X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
24 MB (25137271 bytes)
Series
California studies in food and culture 43
Edition
Enhanced Credo edition
Pages
(17 entries) : 84 images\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Cooking;Cooking--History;Food habits;Food habits--

Description

Cuisine and Empire shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers.;Mastering grain cookery, 2,000-300 B.C.E -- The barley-wheat cuisines of the ancient empires, 500 B.C.E.-400 C.E -- Buddhism transforms the cuisines of eastern Asia, 200 B.C.E.-800 C.E -- Islam transforms the cuisines of central and west Asia, 800-1650 C.E -- Christianity transforms the cuisines of Europe and the Americas, 100-1650 C.E -- Prelude to modern cuisines: Europe, 1650-1840 -- Modern cuisines in the industrializing regions, 1810-1920 -- The globalization of modern cuisines, 1920-2000.

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