Cuisine and Culture

Cuisine and Culture

A History of Food and People

Civitello, L.

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

08/2003

384

Mole

Inglês

9780471202806

0471202800

482

Covering prehistory and the earliest societies around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers to celebrity chefs, this book provides answers to many questions as: How did the French establish a notable reputation in world cuisine? Where does American cuisine have its roots? How has food been used to control populations and as a weapon during war?
Antipasto/Antojitos/Amuse--Bouches. A Note About Reading Histoy. Acknowledgments. From Raw to Cooked: Prehistory, Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, India. The Goddess of Grain and the God of the Grape: Ancient Greece and Imperial Rome. Crazy Bread and Courtly Manners: The Middle Ages, 500--1300. Tea, Chocolate, and the Printing Press: Asia, The Americas, and the First Cookbook, 1300--1500. The Columbian Exchange: The 16th Century. Thanksgiving, Hutsepot, and Haute Cuisine: 17th Century America, the Netherlands, Russia, France. From Election Cake to "Let Them Eat Cake": The American and French Revolutions. From Coyotes to Coca--Cola: The 19th Century in America. Sanitation, Nutrition, Migration: The 19th Century in Europe, Asia, and Africa. The Purity Crusade, Cuisine Classique, Communal Food, and Prohibition: The Early 20th Century in the United States, Europe, and Russia. Soup Kitchens, C--Rations, and TV Dinners: The Depression, World War I I, and the Cold War. Revolutions in Cuisines and Cultures: The 1960s Through the Next Millennium. Appendix A. French Pronunciation. Appendix B. Italian Pronunciation. Appendix C. Cookbook and Food Books Chronology. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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