Cuisine and empire: cooking in world history
Auteur :
Laudan, Rachel
Éditeur :
University of California Press
ISBN :
9780520286313
Date de publication :
3 avr. 2015
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 2,8 cm
Poids :
635 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Probing beneath the apparent confusion of dozens of cuisines, this book shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers. It emphasizes how cooking turns farm products into food.