Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food
by Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe
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- Hardcover
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- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0743226445
- ISBN 13
- 9780743226448
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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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- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
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- SON000011758
- Title
- Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food
- Author
- Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0743226445
- ISBN 13
- 9780743226448
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- June 20, 2002
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