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.
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