A movable feast : ten millennia of food globalization / Kenneth F. Kiple.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kiple, Kenneth F., 1939- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food--History.

Food.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 368 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction : From foraging to farming

Last hunters, first farmers

Building the barnyard. Dog ; Sheep and goats ; Pig ; Cattle ; Horse ; Camel ; Water buffalo ; Yak ; Caribou ; Pigeon ; Chicken ; Duck ; Goose

Promiscuous plants of the northern fertile crescent. Wheat ; Barley ; Rye ; Oat ; Legumes ; Other vegetable foods ; Dietary supplements ; Food and Northern Fertile Crescent technology

Peripatetic plants of Eastern Asia. Tropical tuck of Southeast Asia: Banana and plantain, Taro, Yam, Rice, Other fruits and vegetables of Southeast Asia ; China's chief comestibles: Rice, Millet and cereal imports, Culinary competition, Vegetables and fruits, Agricultural revolution, Soybean, Beverages, Fish ; South Asian aliments ; Later East Asian agriculture

Fecund fringes of the northern fertile crescent. African viands: Egypt and North Africa, South of the Sahara ; European edibles

Consequences of the neolithic. Social and cultural consequences ; Ecological consequences ; Health and demographic consequences ; Food processing and preservation

Enterprise and empires. Pre-Roman times ; The Roman Empire

Faith and foodstuffs. Islam ; Christianity ; Buddhism

Empires in the rubble of Rome

Medieval progress and poverty

Spain's new world, the northern hemisphere. Mesoamerica and North America

New world, new foods

New foods in the southern New World.

The Columbian exchange and the old worlds. Europe ; Africa and the East: Africa, Asia

The Columbian exchange and new worlds. Oceania ; The Americas

Sugar and new beverages. Sugar ; Cacao ; Coffee ; Tea ; Soft drinks ; Alcoholic beverages

Kitchen hispanization. The ABC countries ; The Andean region ; Mesoamerica ; The Caribbean and the Spanish Main

Producing plenty in paradise. Colonial times in North America ; The new nation

The frontiers of foreign foods. Tsap sui : Chinese influences ; Spaghetti and red wine : Italian influences ; Chillies and garbanzos : Hispanic influences ; Creole and Cajun : French and African influences ; Grits, greens, and beans : African influences again ; Bratwurst and beer : Germanic influences ; Tea and boiled pudding : English influences

Capitalism, colonialism, and cuisine

Homemade food homogeneity. Restaurants ; Prepared foods, frozen foods, fast foods, and supermarkets

Notions of nutrients and nutriments. Thiamine and beriberi ; Vitamin C and scurvy ; Niacin and pellagra ; Vitamin D, rickets, and other bone maladies ; Iodine and goiter

The perils of plenty

The globalization of plenty

Fast food, a hymn to cellulite

Parlous plenty into the twenty-first century

People and plenty in the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-15875-3

1-280-90961-7

9786610909612

0-511-28566-3

0-511-28640-6

0-511-28410-1

0-511-32184-8

0-511-51214-7

0-511-28490-X

OCLC:

213380379