Food in History

Penguin Books, London, 1988. Revised Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Fifth Impression or later. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 424 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. "When the idea of "Food in History" first occurred to me, I was mystified by the fact that no one had already tackled this fascinating subject. No one had studied the question of how, over half a million years, food and the search for it had influenced both human and historical development; no on had tried to correlate the information turned up by all the twentieth-century 'ologies' - archaeology and anthropology, biology, ecology, technology and zoology among them. During the next seven years I discovered why. It was not the kind of book anyone with a grain of sense or sanity would have embarked on (and in pre-word-processing days, too).... Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History; Britain/UK; Cooking, Wine & Dining. ISBN: 0140469214. ISBN/EAN: 9780140469219. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 7358. . 9780140469219