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Cumo, Christopher, author.
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Food -- History -- Encyclopedias.
Agriculture -- History -- Encyclopedias.
Cooking -- History -- Encyclopedias.
Civilization -- History -- Encyclopedias.
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Foods that changed h...
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Foods that changed history : how foods shaped civilization from the ancient world to the present / Christopher Cumo.
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Cumo, Christopher, author.
Santa Barbara, California ; Denver, Colorado : ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2015]
Subjects
Food -- History -- Encyclopedias.
Agriculture -- History -- Encyclopedias.
Cooking -- History -- Encyclopedias.
Civilization -- History -- Encyclopedias.
ISBN:
9781440835360 (alk. paper)
1440835365 (alk. paper)
Description:
xxii, 451 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents:
Alphabetical list of entries -- Topical list of entries -- Preface -- Introduction -- Timeline -- A-Z entries -- Bibliography, Index.
Apple -- Banana -- Beans -- Beef -- Beer -- Bread -- Breakfast cereal -- Burrito -- Butter and other fats -- Cake -- Canned foods -- Cassava -- Cheese -- Chicken -- Chickpea -- Chili -- Chocolate -- Chop suey -- Cider -- Cinnamon -- Citrus fruits -- Coca-cola -- Coconut -- Coffee -- Cookie -- Corn -- Corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup -- Date -- Duck -- Dumplings -- Egg -- Enchilada -- Fish -- French fries -- Frozen food -- Garlic -- Goose -- Honey -- Hopping John -- Hot dog -- Ice cream -- Ketchup -- Kool-aid -- Lentils -- Macaroni and cheese -- Milk -- Millet -- Molasses -- Mushrooms -- Mutton and lamb -- Nuts -- Oats -- Olive oil -- Onion -- Orange juice -- Organic foods -- Palm oil -- Pancakes -- Pasta -- Pea -- Peanut -- Peanut butter -- Pepper -- Pineapple -- Pizza -- Pork -- Potato -- Potato chip -- Rice -- Rice liquor -- Rye -- Salsa -- Salt -- Sandwich -- Sorghum -- Soup -- Soybeans and their foods -- Spam -- Sugar -- Sweet potato -- Taco -- Tea -- Tomato -- Tortilla -- Turkey -- Turnip -- Vanilla -- Vitamin pill -- Watermelon -- Weight loss products -- Whiskey -- WIne -- Yam.
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"Serving students and general readers alike, this encyclopedia addresses the myriad and profound ways foods have shaped the world we inhabit, from prehistory to the present. Overviews the foods that have changed the world from prehistory to the present. Gives attention to the relationships between foods and religious movements, such as the connections between fish, bread, and wine and the rise of Christianity. Enables readers to grasp the connections between the history of foods and the Columbian Exchange"--amazon.com.
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Ewa Beach P/S Library
R-YA -- Reference
641.3003 CU
Non Circulating
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