Cuisine and empire : cooking in world history
Title:
Cuisine and empire : cooking in world history
Author:
Laudan, Rachel, 1944-
ISBN:
9780520954915
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (483 pages) : illustrations.
Series:
California studies in food and culture ; 43
Series Title:
California studies in food and culture ; 43
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 eastern Asia, 200 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: Europe, 1650-1840 -- Modern cuisines in the industrializing regions, 1810-1920 -- The globalization of modern cuisines, 1920-2000.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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