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Cuisine and empire : cooking in world history /

Here the author 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. Probing beneath the apparent confusion of dozens of cuisines to reveal the underlying simplicity of the culinary family...

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Main Author: Laudan, Rachel, 1944- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2015.
Series:California studies in food and culture ; 43.
Subjects and Genres:
Cooking > History.
Food habits > History.
Food > Social aspects.
Habitudes alimentaires > Histoire.
Aliments > Aspect social.
Cooking.
Food habits.
Feeding Habits
Voedingsgewoonten
History.
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505 0 |a Mastering grain cookery, 20,000-300 B.C.E -- The barley-wheat sacrificial cuisines of the ancient empires, 500 B.C.E.-400 C.E -- Buddhism transforms the cuisines of south and east Asia, 260 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, 1650-1800 -- Modern cuisines: the expansion of middling cuisines, 1810-1920 -- Modern cuisines: The globalization of middling cuisines, 1920-2000. 
520 |a Here the author 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. 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 and the gods, prompted the construction of new cuisines, a handful of which, chosen as the cuisines of empires, came to dominate the globe. This book shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers. The author's innovative narrative treats cuisine, like language, clothing, or architecture, as something constructed by humans. By emphasizing how cooking turns farm products into food and by taking the globe rather than the nation as the stage, she challenges the agrarian, romantic, and nationalistic myths that underlie the contemporary food movement.--Provided by publisher. 
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