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Title

Food : the history of taste / edited by Paul Freedman.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.

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Additional Authors

Freedman, Paul, 1949-

Description

368 p. : ill. (some col.); 27 cm.

Series Statement

California studies in food and culture ; 21

Subjects

• Food > History
• Food habits > History

Note

• "Published by arrangement with Thames & Hudson Ltd., London"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 358-361) and index.

Contents

Introduction: A new history of cuisine / Paul Freedman -- Hunter-gatherers and the first farmers: the evolution of taste in prehistory / Alan K. Outram -- The good things that lay at hand: tastes of ancient Greece and Rome / Veronika Grimm -- The quest for perfect balance: taste and gastronomy in imperial China / Joanna Waley-Cohen -- The pleasures of consumption: the birth of medieval Islamic cuisine / H. D. Miller -- Feasting and fasting: food and taste in Europe in the Middle Ages / C. M. Woolgar -- New worlds, new tastes: food fashions after the Renaissance / Brian Cowan -- The birth of the modern consumer age: food innovations from 1800 / Hans J. Teuteberg -- Chefs, gourmets and gourmands: French cuisine in the 19th and 20th centuries / Alain Drouard -- Dining out: the development of the restaurant / Elliott Shore -- Novelty and tradition: the new landscape for gastronomy / Peter Scholliers.

Call Number

JFF 08-1192

ISBN

• 9780520254763 (alk. paper)
• 0520254767 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2007023292

OCLC

138342566

Title

Food : the history of taste / edited by Paul Freedman.

Imprint

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.

Series

California studies in food and culture ; 21

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 358-361) and index.

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Table of contents only

Added Author

Freedman, Paul, 1949-

Research Call Number

JFF 08-1192