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The Food History Reader

The Food History Reader

Albala, Ken

Paperback

AnthropologyAgricultureGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0857854127
ISBN13: 9780857854124
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Aug 14 2014
Pages: 536
Weight: 2.50
Height: 1.20 Width: 7.80 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
With the proliferation of food history courses and avid interest among scholars and the general public, the need for a solid comprehensive collection of key primary texts about food of the past is urgent.

This collection spans the globe from classical antiquity to the present, offering substantive selections from cookbooks, fiction, gastronomic and dietary treatises and a wide range of food writing. Offering a solid introduction to each period with extensive commentary and suggestions for interpretive strategies, this reader provides extracts undigested, for the student who needs immediate and direct contact with the ideas of the past.

Readings illustrate the various ways religion, politics, social structure, health and agricultural policy shaped what people ate in the past and offer instructive ways to think about our own food systems and how they have been shaped by historical forces.

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