Feast: Why Humans Share Food
by Martin Jones
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"In Feast, Martin Jones reconstructs the development of the meal, with the help of the latest archaeological techniques: from chimpanzees at a kill to university professors at a formal feast, from a Roman banquet to the TV dinner and the drive-through diner. Spanning half a million years, this account reveals the history of the meal and its huge impact both on the society and the ecology of the planet."--Jacket.Tags
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There are a lot of writers now who take a topic like this and make it highly entertaining and informative. This is not one of them. I got through the whole thing, but it was more like dry toast than the moist sweet bread on the cover. The last chapter takes us from original fire hearth, through dining table (a fairly recent development for the common family) and has us crouching around the virtual hearth of the TV set again, while the dining table is relegated to holding written materials. We are eating TV dinners, of course. Disappointing.
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Martin Jones is the first holder of the George Pitt-Rivers Professorship of Archaeological Science at Cambridge University and was chairman of the international Ancient Biomolecules Initiative research program.
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- Canonical title
- Feast: Why Humans Share Food
- Original publication date
- 2007-03-22
- Important places
- Dorset, England, UK; Hambledon Hill, Dorset, England, UK; West Sussex, England, UK; Boxgrove, West Sussex, England, UK; Capellades, Catalonia, Spain
Classifications
- Genres
- Anthropology, Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Food & Cooking
- DDC/MDS
- 394.1 — Society, government, & culture Customs, etiquette & folklore General customs Eating, drinking, using drugs
- LCC
- GT2850 .J66 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Manners and customs (General) Manners and customs (General) Customs relative to private life
- BISAC
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- Members
- 95
- Popularity
- 338,913
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.25)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 1
