An Edible History of Humanity
by:
Tom Standage (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781410418500 (1410418502)
Publish date: August 1st 2009
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
This was...horrible. I don't know that I can put into words how I feel about this book, though I've tried during rants to three different people about this...book. (eye twitch) So sorry, but you're the fourth (fifth, sixth, etc). Hopefully by now I have things lined out in a somewhat understandabl...
A very broad, breezy, introductory overview of the history of food/ agriculture. The book was interesting even if it didn't cover anything terribly new. A "salad" book. No meat.
I didn't enjoy this as much as Standage's History of the World in Six Glasses. There were lots of interesting nuggets in this book, some were cool trivia about the role of food in various phases throughout history, other nuggets shed light on our perspective on food today, calling into question wha...
Standage for the first half of the book merely echoes the 1997 [b:Guns Germs and Steel|1842|Guns, Germs, and Steel The Fates of Human Societies|Jared Diamond|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1363934734s/1842.jpg|2138852], retelling the story of plant domestication and gene exchange; the C...
Not a bad read, but not really to my tastes. This is very much macrohistory, since it attempts to cover the entire history of humanity through food in just under 250 pages. My tastes in history books usually runs towards microhistory. (Other topics I've enjoyed reading histories of: gin, curry, milk...
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