A delicious and intriguing history of food and society From the bestselling author of Civilizations and Millennium, comes a book which delves into the rich history of how we eat and why we eat what we do. In this delicious narrative, we are taken on a journey from the start of humanity right through to the industrialism of the modern age. Starting with the revolutionary notion of our decision to cook our food, Fernandez-Armesto introduces us to the revolutions which influenced our culinary habits today. With customary verve, our guide vividly describes how food changed and changed us through the centuries, on the way explaining why 'You are what you eat.' A witty and intelligent blend of the best historical and culinary writing, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto's Food is a piquant dish of spice, zest and mouth-watering writin
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Felipe Fernandez Armesto has been a member of the Faculty of Modern History at Oxford University since 1983, was most recently Union Pacific Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota. Honours won for his work on maritime and colonial history include the Caird Medal of the National Maritime Museum in 1997 and the John Carter Brown Medal in 1999. He is the author of numerous books, most notably Millenium: A History of the last Thousand Years (1995)and Civilizations (2000).
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By Andrew Fear
Format:Paperback
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto establishes the significance of food in cultural identity throughout history and around the world. Full of astonishing facts and rich in learning, Food: A History is ambitious in coverage and successful in achieving its objective. It is still the only book of its kind.
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By miss waspy
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I looked up the author and wondered how he had time to write all these books and one explanation is the lack of research; in considering cannibalism he refers to Issei Sagawa as someone who "disposed of an unwanted girlfriend" by eating her. A quick search tells anyone that this is not correct and a wholly inappropriate description of what happened. If you can stomach his dismissive remarks about other food authors, judgmental observations about the food of the hoi polloi and his leaden attempts at capturing the style of Alan Davidson then you might read something you haven-t read before but whether it-s true is quite another thing.
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By Rob harris
Format:Hardcover
Great book, very informative. Very well written and a crucial read for anyone wanting to learn about the theory of food.
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