Cuisine and Empire shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers.

Table of Contents

• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Mastering Grain Cookery, 20,000-300 B.C.E.
• 2. The Barley-Wheat Sacrificial Cuisines of the Ancient Empires, 500 B.C.E.-400 C.E.
• 3. Buddhism Transforms the Cuisines of South and East Asia,260 B.C.E.-800 C.E.
• 4. Islam Transforms the Cuisines of Central and West Asia, 800-1650 C.E.
• 5. Christianity Transforms the Cuisines of Europe and the Americas, 100-1650 C.E.
• 6. Prelude to Modern Cuisines: Northern Europe, 1650-1800
• 7. Modern Cuisines: The Expansion of Middling Cuisines, 1810-1920
• 8. Modern Cuisines: The Globalization of Middling Cuisines, 1920-2000
• Bibliography