Book ID: 78161
Kiple, K. F. and Connee Ornelas (eds.)
The Cambridge World History of Food. 2 volumes. 2000. 2000 p. Hardcover. - In Box.
Presents a full spectrum of foods that have been hunted, gathered, cultivated, and domesticated, their nutritional makeup and uses, and their impact on human populations. Includes a dictionary that identifies and sketches out brief histories of plant food mentioned in the text - over 1,000 in all - and additionally supplies thousands of common names and synonyms for those foods.