Cuisine and empire cooking in world history /

Laudan, Rachel, 1944-

Cuisine and empire cooking in world history / Rachel Laudan. - Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xiv, 464 pages) illustrations ; 24. cm. - California studies in food and culture ; 43 .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Mastering grain cookery, 2,000-300 B.C.E -- The barley-wheat cuisines of the ancient empires, 500 B.C.E.-400 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, 1650-1840 -- Modern cuisines: the expansion of middling cuisines, 1810-1920 -- Modern cuisines: the globalization of modern cuisines, 1920-2000.



9780520954915


Cooking--History.
Food habits--History.
Food--Social aspects.


Electronic Books.

TX645 / .C857 2013