Comprehensive in scope, this two-volume encyclopedia covers agriculture and industry, food preparation and regional cuisines, science and technology, nutrition and health, and trade and commerce, as well as key contemporary issues such as famine relief, farm subsidies, food safety, and the organic movement.

Table of Contents

• Introduction: Food History—A Global Perspective
• A-Z Entries
• Abreu, António de, and Francisco Serrao
• Additives, Food
• Adulterated Food
• African Diet and Cuisine, Sub-Saharan
• African Food Trade
• African Slave Diet
• Afterlife and Food
• Agribusiness
• Agriculture
• Agroecology
• Airlifts, Food
• Alcoholic Beverages
• Allergies, Food
• Amerindian Diet
• Animal Husbandry
• Aphrodisiacs
• Apicius
• Appetizers and Hors d'Oeuvres
• Aquaponics
• Arab Diet and Cuisine
• Arctic Diet and Cuisine
• Art, Food in
• Asian Food Trade
• Athenaeus
• Australian Diet and Cuisine
• Australian Food Trade
• Aztec Diet and Cuisine
• Baby Food and Infant Feeding
• Bamboo
• Barbecue
• Barter
• Beans and Legumes
• Beard, James
• Beef
• Beer
• Biopiracy
• Biscuit
• Blenders and Food Processors
• Blueberries
• Boré, Jean Étienne de
• Bouillon
• Bread
• Breadfruit
• Breakfast
• Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme
• British East India Company
• Buffalo
• Burbank, Luther
• Bushmeat
• Byzantine Diet and Cuisine
• Caching
• Cacti
• Cajun Diet and Cuisine
• Cannibalism
• Canning
• Cantonese Diet and Cuisine
• Caravans
• Carbonation and Carbonated Beverages
• Carême, Marie-Antoine
• Caribbean Diet and Cuisine
• Cereal
• Charlemagne
• Cheese
• Chicle and Chewing Gum
• Child, Julia
• Chili
• Chocolate
• Chowder
• Chutney
• Cider
• Clipper Ships
• Coconut
• Cod
• Coffee
• Columbus, Christopher
• Commodity Regulation
• Commodity Riots
• Condiments
• Consumer Protection Laws
• Cook, James
• Cookbooks
• Cooking Schools
• Cook-Offs
• Cookware
• Cooperatives, Food
• Coprolites
• Corn and Maize
• Cortés, Hernán de
• Crackers
• Creole Diet and Cuisine
• Crusaders’ Diet and Cuisine
• Culpeper, Nicholas
• Curative Foods
• Curing
• Currency, Food as
• Curry
• Cussy, Louis, Marquis de
• Customs, Food
• Dairy Food
• Dal
• Danish East India Company
• Danish West India Company
• Darwin, Charles
• Daubenton, Louis Jean-Marie
• David, Elizabeth
• De Soto, Hernando
• Delessert, Benjamin
• Desalination
• Díaz, Bernal
• Dinner
• Disease, Food-Borne
• Dried Food
• Dubois, Félix Urbain
• Durante, Castor
• Dutch East India Company
• Dye, Food
• Ecofeminism
• Egyptian Diet and Cuisine, Ancient
• Einkorn Wheat
• Eliot, Jared
• Emmer Wheat
• Endangered Species
• Escoffier, Georges Auguste
• Espaliering
• Exotic Food Clubs
• Fads
• Famine
• Famine Relief
• Farm Subsidies and Government Agricultural Programs
• Fast Food
• Feasting
• Fermented Foods
• Fertile Crescent Diet and Food Trade
• Film, Food in
• Finger Food
• Fish and Fishing
• Food Network
• Free-Range Foods
• Freeze-Drying
• French Diet and Cuisine
• French East India Company
• French West India Company
• Frézier, Amédée François
• Fructarianism
• Fungi
• Fusion Cuisine
• Gama, Vasco da
• Genetically Modified Food
• Gourmet Cuisine
• Greek Diet and Cuisine, Ancient
• Greenhouse Horticulture
• Grilling
• Guar
• Halal
• Hanna, Gordie C.
• Haute Cuisine
• Hearth Cookery
• Heirloom Plants
• Herbs
• Heritage Foods
• Herodotus
• Hiatt, Jesse
• Holiday Dishes and Festival Foods
• Honey
• Hormones in Food
• Horses
• Hot Pots
• House of India
• Hudson's Bay Company
• Hunter-Gatherers
• Huou
• Hybridization
• Ibn Battuta
• Ice
• Ice Cream
• Idiocuisine
• Immigrant Diet and Cuisine
• Inca Diet and Cuisine
• Indian Diet and Cuisine
• Indonesian Diet and Cuisine
• Industrial Food Processing
• Insects
• Inspection and Safety, Food
• International Food Aid
• Irrigation
• Israeli Diet and Cuisine
• Italian Diet and Cuisine
• Jacobean Diet and Cuisine
• Japanese Diet and Cuisine
• Jefferson, Thomas
• Jerky
• Jiménez de Quesada, Gonzalo
• Kebabs
• Ketchup
• Kitchen Gardening
• Kitchen Lore
• Korean Diet and Cuisine
• Kosher Food
• La Varenne, Pierre
• Language, Food
• Lapérouse, Jean François Galaup
• Larousse Gastronomique
• Las Casas, Bartolomé de
• Liebig, Justus von
• Lind, James
• Linnaeus, Carolus
• Literature, Food in
• Livingston, A.W.
• Local Food Movement
• London Virginia Company
• Luau
• Lunch
• Mail-Order Food
• Malnutrition
• Mandarin Diet and Cuisine
• Manioc
• Maritime Trade Routes
• Markets and Marketing
• Marshall, Agnes
• McDonald's
• Médici, Catherine de’
• Medieval Diet and Cuisine
• Mediterranean Diet and Cuisine
• Mexican Diet and Cuisine
• Middens
• Milling
• Monoculture
• Monosodium Glutamate
• Moravian Diet and Cuisine
• Mozambique Company
• Mustard
• National Dishes
• New World Commodities
• Nomad Diet and Cuisine
• Noodles
• North African Diet and Cuisine
• North American Diet and Cuisine
• North Borneo Company
• Nouvelle Cuisine
• Nutrition
• Nuts and Seeds
• Obesity
• Oils
• Olives and Olive Oil
• Organic Foods
• Packaging
• Paleolithic Diet
• Pan-European Diet and Cuisine
• Pasta
• Pastry
• Paula Marín, Francisco de
• Pemmican
• Pennsylvania Dutch Diet and Cuisine
• Peppers
• Persian Diet and Cuisine
• Peyote
• Phoenician Diet and Cuisine
• Physic Gardening
• Pickling
• Pit Cookery
• Plant Disease and Prevention
• Pliny the Elder
• Poisonous Foods
• Polo, Marco
• Polynesian Diet and Cuisine
• Pork
• Portuguese Diet and Cuisine
• Portuguese East India Company
• Potatoes
• Poultry
• Prohibition
• Proust, Joseph-Louis
• Pulses
• Randolph, Mary
• Rationing
• Raw Cuisine
• Refrigeration
• Regional Cuisine
• Religion and Food
• Restaurants
• Rice
• Roman Diet and Cuisine, Ancient
• Royal Greenland Trade Department
• Rumford, Count
• Russian Diet and Cuisine
• Salad and Salad Bars
• Salt
• Sanitation
• Sauces and Saucing
• Sausage
• Scandinavian Diet and Cuisine
• Seacole, Mary Jane
• Seaman's Diet and Cuisine
• Seaweed
• Seed Trade
• Shellfish
• Sicilian Diet and Cuisine
• Sierra Leone Company
• Silk Road
• Sloane, Hans
• Slow Food
• Smoked Food
• Snack Food
• Soft Drinks and Juices
• Soul Food
• Soup Kitchens
• Soups
• Sourdough
• South American Diet and Cuisine
• Soyer, Alexis
• Spices
• Standish, Miles
• Storage, Food
• Street Food
• Sugar and Sweeteners
• Supermarkets
• Swedish East India Company
• Swedish West India Company
• Swiddens
• Symbolism, Food
• Szechuan Diet and Cuisine
• Taboos, Food
• Taillevent
• Taro
• Tea
• Tea Ceremony
• Temperance
• Tex-Mex Diet and Cuisine
• Theophrastus
• Tofu
• Tortillas
• Trade Routes
• Trading Vessels
• Trans Fat
• Travel Food
• Tudor Diet and Cuisine
• Tull, Jethro
• Vanilla
• Veganism
• Vegetarianism
• Verrazzano, Giovanni da
• Vinegar
• Virginia Company of Plymouth
• Voegtlin, Walter L.
• Water
• Whaling
• Wheat
• Whiskey
• Wild Food
• Wine
• World Trade
• Yeast
• Yogurt
• Chronology
• Glossary
• Appendix: Herbal Food and Uses
• Master Bibliography
• Primary Sources
• Secondary Sources
• Web Sites