Cuisine and empire : cooking in world history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Laudan, Rachel, 1944- (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London : University of California Press, [2013]
Series:California studies in food and culture ; 43.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Mastering grain cookery, 2,000-300 B.C.E
  • The barley-wheat cuisines of the ancient empires, 500 B.C.E.-400 C.E
  • Buddhism transforms the cuisines of south and east Asia, 260 B.C.E.-800 C.E
  • Islam transforms the cuisines of central and west Asia, 800-1650 C.E
  • Christianity transforms the cuisines of Europe and the Americas, 100-1650 C.E
  • Prelude to modern cuisines: Northern Europe, 1650-1840
  • Modern cuisines: the expansion of middling cuisines, 1810-1920
  • Modern cuisines: the globalization of modern cuisines, 1920-2000.