Food in world history / Jeffrey M. Pilcher.
By: Pilcher, Jeffrey M.
Series: Themes in world history. Publisher: New York, NY : Routledge, c2006Description: viii, 132. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0415311462 (pbk.).Subject(s): Food -- History | Food supply -- HistoryDDC classification: 641.3009Item type | Current location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Main Collection | Taylor's Library-TU | 641.3009 PIL (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available | SLASx,05000,03,GR | 5000004294 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The first world cuisine -- The ingredients of change -- The Columbian exchange -- Sugar, spice, and blood -- Nouvelle cuisines -- Moral and political economies -- The taste of modernity -- The industrial kitchen -- Cuisine and nation-building -- Empires of food -- Migrant cuisines -- The global palate -- Guns and butter -- The green revolution -- Mcdonaldization and its discontents -- Culinary pluralism.