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　　This book, based largely on the Cambridge World History of

Food, provides a look at the globalization of food from the days of

the hunter-gatherers to present-day genetically modified plants and

animals. The establishment of agriculture and the domestication of

animals in Eurasia, Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas are all

treated in some detail along with the subsequent diffusion of

farming cultures through the activities of monks, missionaries,

migrants, imperialists, explorers, traders, and raiders. Much

attention is given to the 'Columbian Exchange' of plants and

animals that brought revolutionary demographic change to every

corner of the planet and led ultimately to the European occupation

of Australia and New Zealand as well as the rest of Oceania. Final

chapters deal with the impact of industrialization on food

production, processing, and distribution, and modern-day

food-related problems ranging from famine to obesity to genetically

modified food to fast food.

Preface: A movable feast: ten millennia of food

globalization

Introduction: from foraging to farming

1. Last hunters, first farmers

2. Building the barnyard

3. Promiscuous plants of the northern fertile crescent

4. Peripatetic plants of Eastern Asia

5. Fecund fringes of the northern fertile crescent

6. Consequences of the Neolithic

7. Enterprise and empires

8. Faith and foodstuffs

9. Empires in the rubble of Rome

10. Medieval progress and poverty

11. Spain's New World, the Northern Hemisphere

12. New world, new foods

13. New foods in the Southern New World

14. The Columbian exchange and the Old Worlds

15. The Columbian exchange and the New Worlds

16. Sugar and new beverages

17. Kitchen Hispanization

18. Producing plenty in paradise

19. The frontiers of foreign foods

20. Capitalism, colonialism, and cuisine

21. Homemade food homogeneity

22. Notions of nutrients and nutriments

23. The perils of plenty

24. The globalization of plenty

25. Fast food, a hymn to cellulite

26. Parlous plenty into the twenty-first century

27. People and plenty in the twenty-first century

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书籍介绍

In the last twenty-five years alone, the range of fruits and vegetables, even grains, that is available at most local markets has changed dramatically. Over the last 10,000 years, that change is almost unimaginable. This groundbreaking new work, from the editor of the highly regarded Cambridge World History of Food, examines the exploding global palate. It begins with the transition from foraging to farming that got underway some 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent, then examines subsequent transitions in Egypt, Africa south of the Sahara, China, southeast Asia, the Indus Valley Oceanic, Europe, and the Americas. It ends with chapters on genetically modified foods, the fast food industry, the nutritional ailments people have suffered from, famine, the obesity epidemic, and a look at the future on the food front. Food, at its most basic, fuels the human body. At its most refined, food has been elevated to a position of fine art. The path food has taken through history is a fairly straightforward one; the space which it occupies today could not be more fraught. This sweeping narrative covers both ends of the spectrum, reminding us to be grateful for and delighted in a grain of wheat, as well as making us aware of the many questions that remain unanswered about what lies ahead. Did you know. . .

- That beans were likely an agricultural mistake?

- That cheese making was originated in Iran over 6000 years ago?

- That pepper was once worth its weight in gold?

- That sugar is the world s best-selling food, surpassing even wheat?

- That Winston Churchill asserted, in 1942, that tea was more important to his troops than ammunition?

- That chili con carne is one of the earliest examples of food globalization?

- That, by 1880, virtually every major city in America had a Chinese restaurant?

- That white bread was once considered too nutritious?

Kenneth Kiple reveals these facts and more within A Moveable Feast.