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ISBN
9781468316797

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Abrams, Inc.
ISBN-10
1468316796
ISBN-13
9781468316797
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2309663669

Product Key Features

Book Title
Food Fights and Culture Wars : a Secret History of Taste
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Topic
Social History, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), History, World
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Cooking, Social Science, History
Author
Tom Nealon
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
23.1 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
394.1209
Synopsis
"An engaging work that explores moments when taste for a new food sprang from or collided with larger forces . . . delightful" (Lisa Abend, The New York Times Book Review), Through war and plague, revolution and migration, people have always had to eat. Parallel to the history books, a second, more obscure history was being recorded in the cookbooks of the time, which charted the evolution of meals and the transmission of ingredients around the world. In this eclectic book of food history, antiquarian cookbook expert Tom Nealon makes the case that the course of civilization has secretly been defined by two forces: hunger and taste.In the course of this sumptuous feast of a book, Tom Nealon takes on such overlooked themes as carp and the Crusades, brown sauce and Byron, and chillies and cannibalism. He examines conspiracies and controversies, probing the connections between the French Revolution and table settings, food thickness and colonialism, lemonade and the Black Plague, "and other astonishing connections in this wide-ranging history of food--and civilization itself" (Entertainment Weekly, Best New Books). Beautifully illustrated with material from the collection of the British Library, Food Fights & Culture Wars draws depth from Tom Nealon's wide-ranging knowledge to explore the mysteries at the intersection of food and society.
LC Classification Number
GT2850.N43 2017

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