"Kochen." . . "Alimentation Aspect social." . . "Ess- und Trinksitte." . . "Aliments Aspect social." . . "Ernährung." . . "Nourriture." . . . . "Food Social aspects." . . "Food Social aspects" . "Food / Social aspects." . "Food habits History." . . "Food habits / History." . "Essgewohnheit." . . "Comportement alimentaire." . . "Lebensmittel." . . "Cooking History." . . "COOKING / History" . "Cooking / History." . "Ernährungsgewohnheit." . . "Cuisine Histoire." . . "Habitudes alimentaires Histoire." . . "Geschichte." . . "Electronic books." . . "Electronic books" . "Histoire." . . "Cuisine (Art culinaire)" . . "Food habits" . . "Food habits." . . . . . . "\"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 underlying simplicity of the culinary family tree, she shows how periodic seismic shifts in 'culinary philosophy'--beliefs about health, the economy, politics, society and the gods--prompted the construction of new cuisines, a handful of which, chosen as the cuisines of empires, came to dominate the globe. Cuisine and Empire shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers. Laudan's innovative narrative treats cuisine, like language, clothing, or architecture, as something constructed by humans. By emphasizing how cooking turns farm products into food and by taking the globe rather than the nation as the stage, she challenges the agrarian, romantic, and nationalistic myths that underlie the contemporary food movement\"--Provided by publisher."@en . . . . . . . . "Cuisine and empire cooking in world history" . . . "Cuisine and Empire shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . "History" . "History"@en . "Here the author tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world's great cuisines from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present. Probing beneath the apparent confusion of dozens of cuisines to reveal the underlying simplicity of the culinary family tree, she shows how periodic seismic shifts in 'culinary philosophy', beliefs about health, the economy, politics, society and the gods, prompted the construction of new cuisines, a handful of which, chosen as the cuisines of empires, came to dominate the globe. This book shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers. The author's innovative narrative treats cuisine, like language, clothing, or architecture, as something constructed by humans. By emphasizing how cooking turns farm products into food and by taking the globe rather than the nation as the stage, she challenges the agrarian, romantic, and nationalistic myths that underlie the contemporary food movement.--Provided by publisher." . . . . . . . . . "Electronic books" . . "Electronic books"@en . . . "Cuisine and empire : cooking in world history"@en . "Cuisine and empire : cooking in world history" . "Cooking in world history"@en . . . . . . "Cuisine & empire" . . . . . "Livres électroniques" . . . "Aspect social." . . "Coutumes alimentaires Histoire." . . "Aliment." . . "Cooking" . . "Cooking." . "Alimentation." . . "COOKING General." . .