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Cuisine and empire : cooking in world history /

"Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world's great cuisines--rfrom the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present--in this superbly researched book. Probing beneath the apparent confusion of dozens of cuisines to reveal the unde...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Laudan, Rachel, 1944- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London : University of California Press, [2013]
Colección:California studies in food and culture ; 43.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Mastering grain cookery, 20,000-300 B.C.E.
  • The barley-wheat sacrificial cuisines of the ancient empires, 500 B.C.E.-400 B.C.E.
  • Buddhism transforms the cuisines of South and East Asia, 260 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: Northern Europe, 1650-1800
  • Modern cuisines: the expansion of middling cuisines, 1810-1920
  • Modern cuisines: the globalization of middling cuisines, 1920-2000.