Cuisine and Empire
Book description
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…
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1 author picked Cuisine and Empire as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love this book primarily for the ambitiousness of its breadth. It begins thousands of years ago with the role of early grain domestication in empire-building and stretches to the roles of modern cuisines in global trade, industry, and capitalism. Although a whirlwind of peoples and places from across human history, this beautifully written and illustrated book is easy for any reader interested in the subject to digest.
From Troy's list on food and empires in history.
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