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Title Near a thousand tables : a history of food / Felipe Fernández-Armesto.

LOCATION CALL # STATUS
 General Collection  TX353 .F437 2004    AVAILABLE
Description xi, 258 pages ; 22 cm
Edition First Free Press trade paperback edition.
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-245) and index.
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.
Subject Food -- History.
Alt Title Near one thousand tables
Standard # 0743227409
9780743227407

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