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Near a thousand tables : a history of food /
"In Near a Thousand Tables, Oxford historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto tells the fascinating story of food as cultural as well as culinary history - ecology as well as gastronomy." "At the heart of this engrossing book are what Fernandez-Armesto calls the eight great revolutions in the...
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New York :
Free Press,
2004.
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| Edition: | First Free Press trade paperback edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Invention of cooking: the first revolution
- Meaning of eating: food as rite and magic
- Breeding to eat: the herding revolution: from "collecting" food to "producing" it
- Edible earth: managing plant life for food
- Food and rank: inequality and the rise of haute cuisine
- Edible horizon: food and the long-range exchange of culture
- Challenging evolution: food and ecological exchange
- Feeding the giants: food and industrialization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.