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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fernández-Armesto, Felipe
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : The Free Press, c2002.
Subjects:	Food > History.
Online Access:	Contributor biographical information Publisher description Table of contents

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

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