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Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History - California Studies in Food and Culture
Rachel Laudan
Tells the story of the rise and fall of the world's great cuisines - from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present. This book shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers.
488 pages, 68 b/w photographs, 10 maps, 6 tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 21, 2013 |
| ISBN13 | 9780520266452 |
| Publishers | University of California Press |
| Pages | 488 |
| Dimensions | 236 × 157 × 36 mm · 798 g |
| Language | English |