Near a Thousand Tables (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Felipe Fernández-Armesto
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: Prehistory to the late twentieth century
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Farms, farmers, or farming, Food, Medicine, Cookery or cooks, Agriculture, Hunting or hunters, Technology, Animals, Cannibalism, Vegetarianism, Food supply, Dairy industry or products, Livestock, Eating customs
Historian and author Felipe Fernández-Armesto highlights the story of food as cultural history in eight revolutions. His eight chapters cover the invention of cooking, the ritual and magical meanings of eating, the domestication of livestock, the development of agriculture, the rise of haute cuisine, food and cultural exchange, the ecology of food production, and the industrialization of the food industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Everyone eats and everyone asks questions about food. What is for dinner? Where did this food first grow? Who learned to prepare it...
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