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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Albala, Ken.       by title:      Food: a cultural cul...       by call number:      DVD 641.3 A325f     Search the Web     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.       MARC Display

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. Genre:  Filmed lectures. Educational films. DVDs. Other authors:  Teaching Company. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfeature DVDs DVD 641.3 A325f Adult Dvds-21 Days Not Available Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfeature DVDs DVD 641.3 A325f Adult Dvds-21 Days Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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