Food

by Richard Tames

Published 31 March 1994
This book is part of a series showing how basic elements of civilization have been developed from their earliest beginnings to the present day. New discoveries are related to the social and political needs that inspired them and to the technologies that made them possible and examples of innovation and evolution from many countries are presented. This book presents the story of man's search for food, the main sources of food and the huge variety of foodstuffs throughout the world.