Cuisine and empire : cooking in world history / Rachel Laudan.

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by Laudan, Rachel, 1944- author.
Call Number 641.5 23
Publication Date 2013
Summary "Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world's great cuisines--rfrom the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present--in this superbly researched book. Probing beneath the apparent confusion of dozens of cuisines to reveal the underlying simplicity of the culinary family tree, she shows how periodic seismic shifts in 'culinary philosophy'--beliefs about health, the economy, politics, society and the gods--prompted the construction of new cuisines, a handful of which, chosen as the cuisines of empires, came to dominate the globe. Cuisine and Empire shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers. Laudan's innovative narrative treats cuisine, like language, clothing, or architecture, as something constructed by humans. By emphasizing how cooking turns farm products into food and by taking the globe rather than the nation as the stage, she challenges the agrarian, romantic, and nationalistic myths that underlie the contemporary food movement"--Provided by publisher.
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The menial art of cooking : archaeological studies of cooking and food preparation / edited by Sarah R. Graff and Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría.

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by Graff, Sarah R.
Call Number 641.509
Publication Date 2012
Summary Although the archaeology of food has long played an integral role in our understanding of past cultures, the archaeology of cooking is rarely integrated into models of the past. The cooks who spent countless hours cooking and processing food are overlooked and the forgotten players in the daily lives of our ancestors. The Menial Art of Cooking shows how cooking activities provide a window into other aspects of society and, as such, should be taken seriously as an aspect of social, cultural, political, and economic life. This book examines techniques and technologies of food preparation, the.
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Cuisine and empire : cooking in world history / Rachel Laudan.

The menial art of cooking : archaeological studies of cooking and food preparation / edited by Sarah R. Graff and Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría.