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Tom Standage

An Edible History of Humanity

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Throughout history, food has done more than simply provide sustenance. It has acted as a tool of social transformation, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, military conflict and economic expansion. In AnEdible History of Humanity Tom Standage serves up a hugely satisfying account of ways in which food has, indirectly, helped to shape and transform societies around the world. It is a dazzling account of gastronomic revolutions from pre-history to the present.
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337 бумажных страниц
Правообладатель
Bookwire
Дата публикации оригинала
2012
Год выхода издания
2012
Издательство
Atlantic Books
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  • Barbaraцитирует3 года назад
    The languages we speak today, like the foods we eat, are descended from those used by the first farmers.
  • Barbaraцитирует3 года назад
    Today, nearly 90 percent of the world’s population speaks a language belonging to one of seven language families that had their origins in two agricultural homelands: the Fertile Crescent and parts of China.
  • Anaцитирует6 месяцев назад
    Sugar and potatoes, as much as the steam engine, underpinned the Industrial Revolution. The production of sugar on plantations in the West Indies was arguably the earliest prototype of an industrial process, reliant though it was on slave labor. Potatoes, meanwhile, overcame initial suspicion among Europeans to become a staple food that produced more calories than cereal crops could from a given area of land. Together, sugar and potatoes provided cheap sustenance for the workers in the new factories of the industrial age.

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