0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > History of engineering & technology

Not currently available

Consider the Fork (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition) Loot Price: R326
Discovery Miles 3 260
You Save: R67 (17%)

Consider the Fork (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)

Bee Wilson

 (sign in to rate)
List price R393 Loot Price R326 Discovery Miles 3 260 You Save R67 (17%)

Bookmark and Share

Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available.

Award-winning food writer Bee Wilson's secret history of kitchens, showing how new technologies - from the fork to the microwave and beyond - have fundamentally shaped how and what we eat. Since prehistory, humans have braved sharp knives, fire, and grindstones to transform raw ingredients into something delicious -- or at least edible. But these tools have also transformed how we consume, and how we think about, our food. In Consider the Fork, award-winning food writer Bee Wilson takes readers on a wonderful and witty tour of the evolution of cooking around the world, revealing the hidden history of objects we often take for granted. Technology in the kitchen does not just mean the Pacojets and sous-vide machines of the modern kitchen, but also the humbler tools of everyday cooking and eating: a wooden spoon and a skillet, chopsticks and forks. Blending history, science, and personal anecdotes, Wilson reveals how our culinary tools and tricks came to be and how their influence has shaped food culture today. The story of how we have tamed fire and ice and wielded whisks, spoons, and graters, all for the sake of putting food in our mouths, Consider the Fork is truly a book to savor.

General

Imprint: BasicBooks
Country of origin: United States
Release date: October 2013
First published: October 2013
Authors: Bee Wilson
Dimensions: 210 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 320
Edition: First Trade Paper Edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-465-05697-2
Categories: Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > History of engineering & technology
Books > Health, Home & Family > Cookery / food & drink etc > General
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Food & Drink > General
Promotions
LSN: 0-465-05697-0
Barcode: 9780465056972

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Colorado's Daring Ivy Baldwin - Aviator…
Ballard Paperback R488 R453 Discovery Miles 4 530
How to Catch a Lobster in Down East…
Christina LeMieux Oragano Paperback R469 R441 Discovery Miles 4 410
Deceitful Media - Artificial…
Simone Natale Hardcover R2,435 Discovery Miles 24 350
Transforming the Twentieth Century…
Vaclav Smil Hardcover R1,886 Discovery Miles 18 860
Early Scientific Computing in Britain
Mary Croarken Hardcover R1,326 Discovery Miles 13 260
Cascade Locks and Canal
Friends of the Cascade Locks Historical Museum Paperback R553 R512 Discovery Miles 5 120
Murder & Mayhem on the Texas Rails
Jeff Campbell, Interurban Railway Museum Paperback R497 R464 Discovery Miles 4 640
Cyril Burt: Fraud or Framed?
N.J. Mackintosh Hardcover R1,690 Discovery Miles 16 900
The Old Spanish Trail Highway in Texas
James Collett Paperback R541 R500 Discovery Miles 5 000
Why Fish Don't Exist
Lulu Miller Paperback R446 R357 Discovery Miles 3 570
Texas Ingenuity - Lone Star Inventions…
Alan C Elliott Paperback R598 R552 Discovery Miles 5 520
Life of Sir Isaac Newton
Sir David Brewster Paperback R535 Discovery Miles 5 350

See more

Partners