Cuisine and empire : cooking in world history / Rachel Laudan.

Cuisine and Empire shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers. Laudan's innovative narrative treats cuisine, like language, clothing, or architecture, as something constructed by humans.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:California studies in food and culture ; 43.
Main Author: Laudan, Rachel, 1944-
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2013.
Series:California studies in food and culture ; 43.
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Physical Description:xiv, 464 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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