A Movable Feast Ten Millennia of Food Globalization Kiple Hardback 9780521793537

Description: A Movable Feast Ten Millennia of Food Globalization Combining fascinating facts with historical evidence, this book is a sweeping narrative of food's place in the world. Kenneth F. Kiple (Author) 9780521793537, Cambridge University Press Hardback, published 30 April 2007 386 pages 24.2 x 16.4 x 2.7 cm, 0.666 kg '… it is a pleasure to see this offspring volume, written by one of [The Cambridge World History of Food]'s co-editors, providing readers with a rich taste of the larger volume's delights, but at a manageable size and price … The whole experience of reading the book is rather like being absorbed in an animated and engaging dinner party conversation. The talk never ceases to be interesting …' The Historian Pepper was once worth its weight in gold. Onions have been used to cure everything from sore throats to foot fungus. White bread was once considered too nutritious. From hunting water buffalo to farming salmon, A Movable Feast chronicles the globalization of food over the past ten thousand years. This engaging history follows the path that food has taken throughout history and the ways in which humans have altered its course. Beginning with the days of hunter-gatherers and extending to the present world of genetically modified chickens, Kenneth F. Kiple details the far-reaching adventure of food. He investigates food's global impact, from the Irish potato famine to the birth of McDonald's. Combining fascinating facts with historical evidence, this is a sweeping narrative of food's place in the world. Looking closely at geographic, cultural and scientific factors, this book reveals how what we eat has transformed over the years from fuel to art. Preface: a movable feast: ten millennia of food globalization Introduction: from foraging to farming 1. Last hunters, first farmers 2. Building the barnyard 3. Promiscuous plants of the northern fertile crescent 4. Peripatetic plants of Eastern Asia 5. Fecund fringes of the northern fertile crescent 6. Consequences of the Neolithic 7. Enterprise and empires 8. Faith and foodstuffs 9. Empires in the rubble of Rome 10. Medieval progress and poverty 11. Spain's New World, the Northern Hemisphere 12. New world, new foods 13. New foods in the southern New World 14. The Columbian exchange and the Old Worlds 15. The Columbian exchange and the New Worlds 16. Sugar and new beverages 17. Kitchen Hispanization 18. Producing plenty in paradise 19. The frontiers of foreign foods 20. Capitalism, colonialism, and cuisine 21. Homemade food homogeneity 22. Notions of nutrients and nutriments 23. The perils of plenty 24. The globalization of plenty 25. Fast food, a hymn to cellulite 26. Parlous plenty into the twenty-first century 27. People and plenty in the twenty-first century. Subject Areas: Archaeology [HD], General & world history [HBG], History [HB]

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