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Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe. Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food.(Brief Article)

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| June 01, 2002 | Russell, Mary | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Free Pr. Jun. 2002. c.288p. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-7432-2644-5. $25. COOKERY

Noted historian Fernandez-Armesto (Millennium: A History of the Last Thousand Years) has undertaken to provide us with a brief alternative to volumes like Alan Davidson's The Oxford Companion to Food and The Cambridge World History of Food. He proposes to "treat food history as a theme of world history ... to trace connections, at every stage, between the food of the past and the way we eat today." To cover this vast topic in a brief volume, the author has divided the subject into eight revolutions that range from the invention of cooking to …

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