Near A Thousand Tables by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
A sweeping cultural and culinary history that traces how what people ate, how it was grown, prepared and shared, and the movements of plants, animals and recipes reshaped societies from antiquity to the modern age; the book examines food as a force of empire, trade and migration, showing how tastes, technologies and social rituals around the table influenced economics, politics and identity, and how global exchange created new cuisines and inequalities as well as opportunities for creativity and adaptation.
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