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Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History Volume 43

Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History Volume 43

Laudan, Rachel

Hardcover

Series: California Studies in Food and Culture, Book 43

Food WritingGeneral Regional CookingGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0520266455
ISBN13: 9780520266452
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Nov 21 2013
Pages: 488
Weight: 1.76
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.39 Depth: 9.22
Language: English
Awards: IACP Crystal Whisk Award
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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