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A Movable Feast: Ten Millennia of Food Globalization by Kiple, Kenneth F.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- Yes
- ISBN
- 9780521793537
- Subject Area
- Cooking, Political Science, History
- Publication Name
- Movable Feast : Ten Millennia of Food Globalization
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Subject
- Globalization, World, History
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Item Weight
- 26.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 386 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
052179353X
ISBN-13
9780521793537
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8038520745
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
386 Pages
Publication Name
Movable Feast : Ten Millennia of Food Globalization
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Subject
Globalization, World, History
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Cooking, Political Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
26.1 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2006-028231
TitleLeading
A
Reviews
"I was pleased to find three commendable qualities in this well-produced and reasonably priced volume: it is packed with fascinating information; it is an admirable exposition on the human propensity to elaborate and find meaning in the most mundane daily tasks and material items; and it would be a useful supplementary text for a course in historical or colonial archaeology." -Jonathan Driver, Simon Fraser University, Canadian Journal of Archaeology, "...delightful work... There are countless fascinating food and drink details in A Movable Feast . But Kiple's story of globalization is particularly interesting not for its incidentals but for the connections it makes between food-ways and what we would generally describe as real history." -Jennifer Hewett, The American Interest, "It is a fascinating tale... it is brimming with curious titbits... Anyone interested in the history of food for whom The Cambridge World History of Food” seems too large a helping will find Mr Kiple's sprightly summary volume far more palatable." - The Economist, "...a book to savor, and to dip back into again and again to nibble at the storehouse of information within." -Kristen M. Burkholder, H-Atlantic, "...the book is filled with many intriguing culinary facts and tasty tidbits of food history." -Library Journal, "...the book is filled with many intriguing culinary facts and tasty tidbits of food history." - Library Journal, "...a smorgasbord of tidbits about our culinary influences, from legumes to Lent to Lindy's restaurant." -Chicago Sun Times, '… it is a pleasure to see this offspring volume, written by one of [The Cambridge World History of Food]'s co-editors, providing readers with a rich taste of the larger volume's delights, but at a manageable size and price … The whole experience of reading the book is rather like being absorbed in an animated and engaging dinner party conversation. The talk never ceases to be interesting …' The Historian, "As the world struggles with food safety and legislating the table, looking back at how far the world's food supply has evolved can give us perspective. Thanks to food historians and authors such as Kenneth F. Kiple we can do that....There's plenty of food for thought in these pages." - The Toledo Blade, "...Kiple must be congratulated for an informative and unusually entertaining synthesis of ten millennia of history. His expertise in the study of health and disease is apparent, and he is particularly strong when examining the relationship between food preparation, consumption patterns, and well-being." -Canadian Journal of History, "Is this, then, a volume, you should rush out and buy? If you chief interest is in the nutritional effects of changing diets...you might well find it worthwhile." -Gastronomica, '... brimming with curious titbits: the use of cocoa beans as currency; the accidental domestication of rye, oats and various legumes after they hitched a ride with wheat and barley; Coca-Cola's origins as a health tonic. Anyone interested in the history of food for whom The Cambridge World History of Food seems too large a helping will find Mr Kiple's sprightly summary volume far more palatable.' The Economist, '… brimming with curious titbits: the use of cocoa beans as currency; the accidental domestication of rye, oats and various legumes after they hitched a ride with wheat and barley; Coca-Cola's origins as a health tonic. Anyone interested in the history of food for whom The Cambridge World History of Food seems too large a helping will find Mr Kiple's sprightly summary volume far more palatable.' The Economist, "Kenneth Kiple has written a delicious history of food, from the pickings our earliest ancestors happened to find under the trees to the amazing range of food available in the nearest supermarket today, from the first domesticated pigs to the prime pork chops we ate for dinner last night. This is a cornucopia of information about food, both profound and fun, a history, a reference book, and a collection of fascinating facts." -Bunny Crumpacker, author of The Sex Life of Food, "The subtitle suggests a pretty tall order for Mr. Kiple to deliver but he does so in a way that the linkage and connections between our neolithic ancestors and ourselves is neither to be dismissed as progress nor trifled with as evidence of what has gone wrong on our planet and its food chain over the last 10,000 years. " -Virtual Gourmet, .,."this slender volume distills 10,000 years of food history into just 300 pages... The strongest material examines the spread of agriculture and its ramifications... gastronomes will find scraps to nibble on...." -Publishers Weekly, '… it is a pleasure to see this offspring volume, written by one of [Cambridge World History of Food]'s coeditors, providing readers with a rich taste of the larger volume's delights, but at a manageable size and price. … The whole experience of reading the book is rather like being absorbed in an animated and engaging dinner party conversation. The talk never ceases to be interesting…' The Historian, "The subtitle suggests a pretty tall order for Mr. Kiple to deliver but he does so in a way that the linkage and connections between our neolithic ancestors and ourselves is neither to be dismissed as progress nor trifled with as evidence of what has gone wrong on our planet and its food chain over the last 10,000 years. " - Virtual Gourmet, "...this slender volume distills 10,000 years of food history into just 300 pages... The strongest material examines the spread of agriculture and its ramifications... gastronomes will find scraps to nibble on...." -Publishers Weekly, "It is a fascinating tale... it is brimming with curious titbits... Anyone interested in the history of food for whom "The Cambridge World History of Food" seems too large a helping will find Mr Kiple's sprightly summary volume far more palatable." -The Economist, "As the world struggles with food safety and legislating the table, looking back at how far the world's food supply has evolved can give us perspective. Thanks to food historians and authors such as Kenneth F. Kiple we can do that....There's plenty of food for thought in these pages." -The Toledo Blade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
641.3
Table Of Content
Preface: a movable feast: ten millennia of food globalization; Introduction: from foraging to farming; 1. Last hunters, first farmers; 2. Building the barnyard; 3. Promiscuous plants of the northern fertile crescent; 4. Peripatetic plants of Eastern Asia; 5. Fecund fringes of the northern fertile crescent; 6. Consequences of the Neolithic; 7. Enterprise and empires; 8. Faith and foodstuffs; 9. Empires in the rubble of Rome; 10. Medieval progress and poverty; 11. Spain's New World, the Northern Hemisphere; 12. New world, new foods; 13. New foods in the southern New World; 14. The Columbian exchange and the Old Worlds; 15. The Columbian exchange and the New Worlds; 16. Sugar and new beverages; 17. Kitchen Hispanization; 18. Producing plenty in paradise; 19. The frontiers of foreign foods; 20. Capitalism, colonialism, and cuisine; 21. Homemade food homogeneity; 22. Notions of nutrients and nutriments; 23. The perils of plenty; 24. The globalization of plenty; 25. Fast food, a hymn to cellulite; 26. Parlous plenty into the twenty-first century; 27. People and plenty in the twenty-first century.
Synopsis
Pepper was once worth its weight in gold. Onions have been used to cure everything from sore throats to foot fungus. White bread was once considered too nutritious. From hunting water buffalo to farming salmon, A Movable Feast chronicles the globalization of food over the past ten thousand years. This engaging history follows the path that food has taken throughout history and the ways in which humans have altered its course. Beginning with the days of hunter-gatherers and extending to the present world of genetically modified chickens, Kenneth F. Kiple details the far-reaching adventure of food. He investigates food's global impact, from the Irish potato famine to the birth of McDonald's. Combining fascinating facts with historical evidence, this is a sweeping narrative of food's place in the world. Looking closely at geographic, cultural and scientific factors, this book reveals how what we eat has transformed over the years from fuel to art., In the last twenty-five years alone, the range of fruits and vegetables, even grains, that is available at most local markets has changed dramatically. Over the last 10,000 years, that change is almost unimaginable. This groundbreaking new work, from the editor of the highly regarded Cambridge World History of Food, examines the exploding global palate. It begins with the transition from foraging to farming that got underway some 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent, then examines subsequent transitions in Egypt, Africa south of the Sahara, China, southeast Asia, the Indus Valley Oceanic, Europe, and the Americas. It ends with chapters on genetically modified foods, the fast food industry, the nutritional ailments people have suffered from, famine, the obesity epidemic, and a look at the future on the food front. Food, at its most basic, fuels the human body. At its most refined, food has been elevated to a position of fine art. The path food has taken through history is a fairly straightforward one; the space which it occupies today could not be more fraught. This sweeping narrative covers both ends of the spectrum, reminding us to be grateful for and delighted in a grain of wheat, as well as making us aware of the many questions that remain unanswered about what lies ahead. Did you know. . . - That beans were likely an agricultural mistake? - That cheese making was originated in Iran over 6000 years ago? - That pepper was once worth its weight in gold? - That sugar is the world's best-selling food, surpassing even wheat? - That Winston Churchill asserted, in 1942, that tea was more important to his troops than ammunition? - That chili con carne is one of the earliest examples of food globalization? - That, by 1880, virtually every major city in America had a Chinese restaurant? - That white bread was once considered too nutritious? Kenneth Kiple reveals these facts and more within A Movable Feast., This book provides a look at the globalization of food from the days of the hunter-gatherers to present-day genetically modified plants and animals., Beginning with the days of hunter-gatherers and extending to the present world of genetically modified chickens, Kenneth F. Kiple details the far-reaching adventure of food. Combining fascinating facts with historical evidence, this book is a sweeping narrative of food's place in the world.
LC Classification Number
TX353 .K55 2007
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