Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History

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.

• | By (Author): Rachel Laudan
• | Publisher: University of California Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 03, 2015
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 488 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0520286316
• | ISBN-13: 9780520286313