A movable feast : ten millennia of food globalization / Kenneth F. Kiple.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.Description: xvi, 368 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 052179353X (hardback)
- 9780521793537 (hardback)
- TX353 .K55 2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-352) and index.
From foraging to farming -- Last hunters, first farmers -- Building the barnyard -- Promiscuous plants of the northern fertile crescent -- Peripatetic plants of Eastern Asia -- Fecund fringes of the northern fertile crescent -- Consequences of the neolithic -- Enterprise and empires -- Faith and foodstuffs -- Empires in the rubble of Rome -- Medieval progress and poverty -- Spain's new world, the northern hemisphere -- New world, new foods -- New foods in the southern new world -- the Columbian exchange and the old worlds -- The Columbian exchange and new worlds -- Sugar and new beverages -- Kitchen hispanization -- Producing plenty in paradise -- The frontiers of foreign foods -- Capitalism, colonialism, and cuisine -- Homemade food homogeneity -- Notions of nutrients and nutriments -- The perils of plenty -- The globalization of plenty -- Fast food, a hymn to cellulite -- Parlous plenty into the twenty-first century -- People and plenty in the twenty-first century.