Why We Eat What We Eat: How the Encounter Between the New World and the Old Changed the Way Everyone on the Planet Eats

Sokolov, Raymond

ISBN 10: 0671667963 / ISBN 13: 9780671667962

Published by Summit Books, 1991

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Why We Eat What We Eat: How the Encounter Between the New World and the Old Changed the Way Everyone on the Planet Eats
• Publisher: Summit Books
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671667963
• ISBN 13: 9780671667962
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Examining how the "discovery" of the Americas set in motion a transformation of food cultures around the world, this look at the five-hundred-year revolution in food history explains how Europeans, Americans, and Asians came to eat what they eat today.