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DeWitt, Dave.
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Food -- America -- History.
Food habits -- America -- History.
America -- Discovery and exploration.
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DeWitt, Dave.
Food -- America -- History.
Food habits -- America -- History.
America -- Discovery and exploration.
MARC Display
Precious
cargo
:
how
foods
from the
Americas
changed
the
world
/ Dave DeWitt.
by
DeWitt, Dave.
Counterpoint, c2014.
Call #:
306.349 D522p
Subjects
Food -- America -- History.
Food habits -- America -- History.
America -- Discovery and exploration.
ISBN:
1619023091
9781619023093
Description:
399 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-386) and index.
Contents:
Preface -- Discovery, botany and food evolution -- Spanish Invasions and strange
foods
of the New
World
-- The Culinary century: Turkish wheat, Indian chickens and false pepper -- Exotic, strong and sometimes intoxicating: new drinks and flavorings -- Venerous roots, poisonous love apples and the king of fruits -- Of Kenky, Chop, Piri-Piri and the testicle tree -- Sir George and curry diaspora -- The fiery "vegetable civilizations" of Asia -- Afterword.
Summary:
Chronicles the story of
how
western-hemisphere
foods
spread throughout the
world
, tracing the science and rise of everyday crops into commodities while examining the roles of pioneering individuals responsible for western food dominance.
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