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Banana : A Global History by Lorna Piatti-Farnell
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Category: Cooking | Series: Edible
For over a century, the banana has been the world's favourite fruit. Quick and easy to eat, tasty and versatile, the banana is a staple of many diets around the globe. Its history, however, is more than simply a succession of happy family scenes and appealing exotic locations. The growth and development ...Show more
Brandy: A Global History by Becky Sue Epstein
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Category: Cooking | Series: Edible
Made from distilled grape wine and produced in countries spanning the globe, brandy is a spirit loved by many, long associated with refined taste and sophisticated consumption. Yet it has recently welcomed a new surge in popularity thanks to exciting new cocktail trends - today it has taken on a new lif ...Show more
Cabbage : A Global History by Meg Muckenhoupt
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Category: History | Series: Edible Ser.
Cabbage has as many faces as it does leafy furbelows. How could a vegetable be so beloved, so universal, and at the same time so disdained? One of the oldest crops in the world, cabbage has for millennia provided European and Asian peoples with vitamins A and C . . . and babies--a belief lent credence b ...Show more
Corn : A Global History by Michael Owen Jones
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Category: Cooking | Series: Edible
In Corn: A Global History, Michael Owen Jones interweaves food history, folklore, history, and popular culture to create a vibrant story of corn's prevalence and importance worldwide. Indigenous people in the New World referred to maize as 'Our Mother', 'Our Life', and 'She Who Sustains Us'. Originating ...Show more
Fats : A Global History by Phillipov, Michelle
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Category: Cooking | Series: Edible Ser.
Description: No other food is as nutritionally crucial, symbolically important or controversial as fat. Butter, oil, tallow, lard, schmaltz - culinary fats have not only shaped world cuisines, they are themselves steeped in cultural and symbolic meanings. From Paleolithic times to contemporary popular c ...Show more
Game : A Global History by Paula Young Lee
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Category: No Category | Series: Edible
Antelope and porcupines in Africa, feral cats and wild goats in Australia and deer, pheasants and rabbits in the USA and Europe are just a few of the world's game animals, or creatures hunted for food. Game has been central to the development of humanity and forms a core part of cultures - and meat in ...Show more
Herring : A Global History by Kathy Hunt
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Category: Cooking | Series: Edible
Herring: A Global History looks at the environmental, historical, political, cultural, and culinary background of this highly prolific and easily caught fish. For such a small fish, the herring has played an enormous role in history. Since the Middle Ages battles have been waged for it; international ec ...Show more
Honey : A Global History by Lucy M. Long, Ph.D
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Category: Cooking | Series: Edible
Sticky, sweet and a natural substance that can be consumed without any human processing, honey is now thought of mostly as a sweetener. In its long history around the world, however, it has been much more. Many cultures have treated it as a staple food, as well as tonic, medicine and preservative. It al ...Show more
Melon : A Global History by Sylvia Lovegren
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Category: Cooking | Series: Edible Ser.
Sweet, succulent, cooling, and often with a beguiling floral fragrance, a ripe melon can be one of the most delicious things you sink your teeth into. As Sylvia Lovegren shows in this book, the melon's complex flavor profile is matched by an equally complex history. Cutting into the melon's past, she ta ...Show more
Mushroom : A Global History by Cynthia Bertelsen
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Known as the meat of the vegetable world, mushrooms have their ardent supporters as well as their fierce detractors. J.R.R. Tolkien's hobbits went crazy over them, while the French philosopher Denis Diderot thought they should be 'sent back to the dung heap where they are born'. In Mushroom, Cynthia D. ...Show more
Onions and Garlic : A Global History by Martha Jay
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Category: Cooking | Series: Edible Ser.
Look at any recipe for a savory dish and chances are it will start with this step: fry onions in a pan over medium heat. Onions--and their allium family relatives, shallots, garlic, chives, and leeks--are one of the most heavily used ingredients in cuisines all over the world. You'll rarely find them in ...Show more
Oyster : A Global History by Carolyn Tillie
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Category: Cooking | Series: Edible
In Oysters: A Global History, Carolyn Tillie delves into the culinary, artistic, sexual, historical, and scientific history of the humble bivalve. Since the dawn of time oysters have inhabited the earth. Naturally high in essential vitamins and minerals, they are one of the oldest known and most widely ...Show more