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Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food
by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Stone paper covered boards with beige cloth spine. Fine in Near Fine dust wrapper.
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About This Item
New York: The Free Press, 2002. Hardcover. Stone paper covered boards with beige cloth spine. Fine in Near Fine dust wrapper.. 258 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Fernandez-Armesto covers what he calls the eight great revolutions in the world history of food: the origins of cooking, the ritualization of eating, the inception of herding, the invention of agriculture, the rise of inequity, the long-range trade in food, the ecological exchanges, and the industrialization and globalization of food. Various ingredients, cultures, travels, fights, and more come together in this comprehensive history of todays eating and cooking habits.
Synopsis
Felipe Fernández-Armesto's Near a Thousand Tables provides a lush hisotry of food, defining cooking as a social act that defines cultures, and looks at the world of cuisine as a series of revolutions. Imagine the impact of cooked food, of herding and domestication of animals for meat, up through our world of industrialization and global reach. "Food gives pleasure," Fernández-Armesto writes, and "can change the eater for better or worse." He concludes, "the role of the next revolution will be to subvert the last."
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- lizzyoung bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3235
- Title
- Near a Thousand Tables
- Author
- Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Stone paper covered boards with beige cloth spine. Fine in Near Fine dust wrapper.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Free Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- Books about food history, rare books about food history, the history of ingredients, who discovered escargot, why do we eat what we eat, you are what you eat
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Food History, Cookbooks & Cocktail books, Cultural History, Medicine, Health, Women, Manuscripts & Ephemera
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