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A Cultural History of Food in the Age of Empire (Paperback)
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A Cultural History of Food in the Age of Empire (Paperback)
Series: The Cultural Histories Series
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The nineteenth-century West saw extraordinary economic growth and
cultural change. This volume explores and explains the birth of the
modern world through the food it produced and consumed. Food
security vastly improved though malnutrition and famines persisted.
Scientific research radically altered the ways in which food and
its relation to the body were conceived: efficiency became the
watchword, norms the measure, and standardized goods the rule. At
the same time, the art of food became a luxury pursuit as interest
in gastronomy soared. A Cultural History of Food in the Age of
Empire presents an overview of the period with essays on food
production, food systems, food security, safety and crises, food
and politics, eating out, professional cooking, kitchens and
service work, family and domesticity, body and soul,
representations of food, and developments in food production and
consumption globally.
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