This wide-ranging history covers the history of food from the earliest, vegetarian members of the human race to the present day. The book explores the relationship between people and diet, and between food and social mores. The book covers a vast variety of foodstuffs - honey, cereals, meat, coffee, chocolate, tea, bread, oil, cake, fungi, fish - and shows how their consumption has evolved down the ages. It concludes with an investigation of scientific issues, including methods of food preservation, dietics and he importance of vitamins.
- ISBN10 6612115955
- ISBN13 9786612115950
- Publish Date 25 March 2009 (first published May 1992)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 21 August 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint John Wiley & Sons
- Format eBook
- Pages 792
- Language English