Rachel Laudan: Cuisine and Empire

Cover: 9780520286313 | Cuisine and Empire | Cooking in World History Volume 43 | Laudan

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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.

Über den Autor

Rachel Laudan is the prize-winning author of The Food of Paradise: Exploring Hawaii's Culinary Heritage and a coeditor of the Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Essen & Trinken
Thema:	Allgemeine Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780520286313
ISBN-10:	0520286316
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Laudan, Rachel
Hersteller:	University of California Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	228 x 149 x 32 mm
Von/Mit:	Rachel Laudan
Erscheinungsdatum:	03.04.2015
Gewicht:	0,667 kg