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The Free Press
Language
English
Pages
258

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Near a thousand tables: a history of food
2002, The Free Press
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Table of Contents

Invention of cooking: the first revolution --
Meaning of eating: food as rite and magic --
Breeding to eat: the herding revolution: from "collecting" food to "producing" it --
Edible earth: managing plant life for food --
Food and rank: inequality and the rise of haute cuisine --
Edible horizon: food and the long-range exchange of culture --
Challenging evolution: food and ecological exchange --
Feeding the giants: food and industrialization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p.[225]-245) and index.

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New York

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Library of Congress
TX353 .F437 2002, TX353.F437 2002

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Pagination
xiii, 258 p. ;
Number of pages
258

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OL15551307M
Internet Archive
nearthousandtabl00fern
ISBN 10
0743226445, 0743227409
LCCN
2002023318
OCLC/WorldCat
49226170
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3771
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16858
16863

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