In this eclectic book of food history, Tom Nealon takes on such overlooked themes as carp and the Crusades, brown sauce and Byron, and chillies and cannibalism, and suggests that hunger and taste are the twin forces that secretly defined the course of civilization. Through war and plague, revolution and migration, people have always had to eat. What and how they ate provoked cu...
In this eclectic book of food history, Tom Nealon takes on such overlooked themes as carp and the Crusades, brown sauce and Byron, and chillies and cannibalism, and suggests that hunger and taste are the twin forces that secretly defined the course of civilization. Through war and plague, revolution and migration, people have always had to eat. What and how they ate provoked culinary upheaval around the world as ingredients were traded and fought over, and populations desperately walked the line between satiety and starvation.
Parallel to the history books, a second, more obscure history was also being recorded in the cookbooks of the time, which charted the evolution of meals and the transmission of ingredients around the world. Food Fights and Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste explores the mysteries at the intersection of food and society, and attempts to make sense of the curious area between fact and fiction.
Beautifully illustrated with material from the collection of the British Library, this wide-ranging book addresses some of the fascinating, forgotten stories behind everyday dishes and processes. Among many conspiracies and controversies, the author meditates on the connections between the French Revolution and table settings, food thickness and colonialism, and lemonade and the Black Plague
尼倫是一位古董書商和飲食史作家,專門收集古老的書籍,特別是食譜和文學。長久以來鑽研西元1300年至1500年左右中世紀末的食物,他是波士頓的Pazzo Books創始人,長期在網站上發表研究食物歷史的相關文章。
美國蒙特瑞國際學院口筆譯碩士,曾任美國國務院約聘口譯員、英語新聞編譯、專職廣告口筆譯員、及大專院校口譯講師。譯作有《學徒》、《手中都是星星》、《飛天老爺車》、《世界的臉譜:全球族群探索》等。
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