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Cuisine and Empire - Cooking in World History (Paperback)
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Cuisine and Empire - Cooking in World History (Paperback)
Series: California Studies in Food and Culture, 43
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Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of
the world's great cuisines from 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.
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