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Albala, Ken.
Subjects
Food.
Food habits.
Food habits -- History.
Food habits -- Cross-cultural studies.
Gastronomy -- History.
Produce trade -- History.
International trade -- History.
Cooking -- History.
Cooking, Medieval.
Cooking, French -- History.
Cooking, Chinese -- History.
Cooking, Mexican -- History.
Dinners and dining -- History.
Dinners and dining -- Social aspects.
Food habits -- Cross-cultural studies.
Restaurants -- History.
Convenience foods -- History.
Ethnic restaurants.
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Albala, Ken.
Food.
Food habits.
Food habits -- History.
Food habits -- Cross-cultural studies.
Gastronomy -- History.
Produce trade -- History.
International trade -- History.
Cooking -- History.
Cooking, Medieval.
Cooking, French -- History.
Cooking, Chinese -- History.
Cooking, Mexican -- History.
Dinners and dining -- History.
Dinners and dining -- Social aspects.
Food habits -- Cross-cultural studies.
Restaurants -- History.
Convenience foods -- History.
Ethnic restaurants.
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Food: a cultural culinary history [videorecording (DVD)]
Ken
Albala
.
by
Albala
,
Ken
.
Teaching Co., c2013.
Call #:
DVD 641.3 A325f
Subjects
Food.
Food habits.
Food habits -- History.
Food habits -- Cross-cultural studies.
Gastronomy -- History.
Produce trade -- History.
International trade -- History.
Cooking -- History.
Cooking, Medieval.
Cooking, French -- History.
Cooking, Chinese -- History.
Cooking, Mexican -- History.
Dinners and dining -- History.
Dinners and dining -- Social aspects.
Food habits -- Cross-cultural studies.
Restaurants -- History.
Convenience foods -- History.
Ethnic restaurants.
Series
Great courses (DVD)
Great courses (DVD). Better living.
ISBN:
9781598039474
Alternate title:
Great Courses. Food: a cultural culinary history [videorecording (DVD)]
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)]
Description:
6 videodiscs (ca. 18 hrs.) : digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 book (290 p. ; 19 cm.)
Notes:
"36 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture"--Container.
Home use only.
Contents:
Disc 1. Hunting, gathering, and stone age cooking -- What early agriculturalists ate -- Egypt and the gift of the Nile -- Ancient Judea: from Eden to kosher laws -- Classical Greece: wine, olive oil, and trade -- The Alexandrian Exchange and the Four Humors.
Disc 2. Ancient India: Sacred cows and Ayurveda -- Yin and Yang of classical Chinese cuisine -- Dining in Republican and Imperial Rome -- Early Christianity: Food rituals and asceticism -- Europe's dark ages and Charlemagne -- Islam: A thousand and one nights of cooking.
Disc 3. Carnival in the High Middle Ages -- International Gothic cuisine -- A renaissance in the kitchen -- Aztecs and the roots of Mexican cooking -- 1492: Globalization and fusion cuisines -- 16th century manners and reformation diets.
Disc 4. Papal Rome and the Spanish golden age -- The birth of French haute cuisine -- Elizabethan England, Puritans, country food -- Dutch treat: coffee, tea, sugar, tobacco -- African and Aboriginal cuisines -- Edo, Japan: Samurai dining and Zen aesthetics.
Disc 5. Colonial cookery in North America -- Eating in the early Industrial Revolution -- Romantics, vegetarians, utopians -- First restaurants, chefs, and gastronomy -- Big business and the homogeniation of food -- Food imperialism around the world.
Disc 6. Immigrant cuisines and ethnic restaurants -- War, nutritionism, and the Great Depression -- World War II and the advent of fast food -- Counterculture: from hippies to foodies -- Science of new dishes and new organisms -- The past as prologue?
Performers:
Lecturer,
Ken
Albala
(Professor of History at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California).
Summary:
These thirty-six half-hour lectures explore the history of how humans have produced, cooked, and consumed food - from the earliest hunting and gathering societies to the present. Global in scope, the course covers many diverse civilizations and the process of globalization that has been shaped by trade in food.
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Filmed lectures.
Educational films.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Teaching Company.
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