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HOW HUMANS LEARNED TO EAT THE WAY WE DO: Cooking, Kitchens, Meals, Utensils, Markets, Restaurants, and the Making of Modern Eating (HOW WE GOT HERE: A History of Everyday Life Series) - Softcover

Book 6 of 6: HOW WE GOT HERE: A History of Everyday Life Series

ZINGIL, SERHAN

 
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Synopsis

HOW HUMANS LEARNED TO EAT THE WAY WE DO explores the long history behind one of the most ordinary parts of human life: eating.
From the first controlled use of fire and early cooking vessels to farming, bread, specialized kitchens, utensils, meal schedules, markets, restaurants, and modern food technology, the book follows the changes that gradually shaped how people prepare, serve, buy, and share food.
Along the way, it looks beyond famous dishes and culinary traditions to the people whose everyday labor made meals possible: farmers, millers, bakers, cooks, market sellers, servants, workers, and families. It also explores how trade, migration, class, religion, technology, and changing work schedules influenced what people ate and when they ate it.
This is not simply a history of food or recipes. It is the story of how thousands of years of experimentation turned fire, ingredients, tools, kitchens, markets, and shared meals into the everyday eating habits we now rarely stop to notice.

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