Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History Volume 43

by Rachel Laudan

Book Overview

Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world's great cuisines--from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present--in this superbly researched book. Probing beneath the apparent confusion of dozens of cuisines to reveal the underlying simplicity of the culinary family tree, she shows how periodic seismic shifts in "culinary philosophy"--beliefs about health, the economy, politics, society...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520286316
• ISBN13: 9780520286313
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.0"