Cuisine and Empire

Editor/Author Laudan, Rachel
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: University of California Press

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ISBN: 978-0-52-026645-2
Category: Food, Drink, Nutrition
Image Count: 84
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents

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

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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