Food Fights & Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste
by Tom Nealon
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This book of food history, suggests that hunger and taste are the twin forces that secretly defined the course of civilization. Through war and plague, revolution and migration, people have always had to eat. What and how they ate provoked culinary upheaval around the world as ingredients were traded and fought over, and populations desperately walked the line between satiety and starvation. Parallel to the history books, a second, more obscure history was also being recorded in the show more cookbooks of the time, which charted the evolution of meals and the transmission of ingredients around the world. Food Fights and Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste explores the mysteries at the intersection of food and society, and attempts to make sense of the curious area between fact and fiction. Beautifully illustrated with material from the collection of the British Library, this wide-ranging book addresses some of the fascinating, forgotten stories behind everyday dishes and processes. show lessTags
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All of the pictures placed throughout the book were fascinating. I appreciated the original layout of numerous illustrations interspersed with text.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, Food & Cooking, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 394.1 — Society, Government, and Culture Customs, etiquette & folklore General customs Eating, drinking, using drugs
- LCC
- GT2850 .N43 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Manners and customs (General) Manners and customs (General) Customs relative to private life
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
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