Resources Tagged: Food History
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Here is a broad survey of the eleven main starch foods of Polynesia and Micronesia that draws together previously scattered information and explores both explicit and implicit expressions of food habits associated with these staples. This study addresses the question of South Pacific peoples...
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1999-01-01 Twenty years in the making, here is the long-awaited magnum opus from one of the world's great authorities on the history and use of food. This Companion is packed with 2,650 delightfully written A-Z entries--including 39 feature articles on staple foods--the vast majority penned by the renowned...
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Charles Heiser writes with great verve about where, when, and how humankind's food plants and animals were domesticated. In narrating his tale, the author traces the intricate patterns of food uses and distribution that have developed since prehistoric times.