Animal, vegetable, junk : a history of food, from sustainable to suicidal / Mark Bittman.

How humankind first hunted and gathered explains our emergence as a new species and our earliest technology. Our first food systems, from fire to agriculture, tell where we settled and how civilizations expanded. The quest for food for growing populations drove exploration, colonialism, slavery, eve...

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Main Author: Bittman, Mark (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Mariner Books, 2022.
Edition:First Mariner Books paperback [edition].
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