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portada Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History (California Studies in Food and Culture)
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Physical Book
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Language
English
Pages
488
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.9 x 15.0 x 2.8 cm
Weight
0.64 kg.
ISBN13
9780520286313
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Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History (California Studies in Food and Culture)

Rachel Laudan (Author) · University of California Press · Paperback

Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History (California Studies in Food and Culture) - Laudan, Rachel

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Synopsis "Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History (California Studies in Food and Culture)"

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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Valentina CastilloSunday, July 26, 2020
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Buen libro sobre la historia universal de la culinaria. Buena edición. Entregado a tiempo.

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