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Moveable Feasts

Moveable Feasts

Moveable Feasts Second hand hardcover - 2007

by McNamee, Gregory

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Westport, CT USA: Praeger Publications, 2007. Second-hand hardcover.

McNamee, Gregory. Movable Feasts: the history, science & lore of food. Praeger Publications: Westport, CT USA 2007. 8vo (240x160mm) pict dj, black bds xvii,[1],194,[4]pp. VG/VG

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  • Title Moveable Feasts
  • Author McNamee, Gregory
  • Binding Second-hand hardcover
  • Edition Illustrated.
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Praeger Publications, Westport, CT USA
  • Publication date 2007
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 9780275989316-1
  • ISBN 9780275989316 / 0275989313
  • Weight 1.09 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.54 x 0.86 in (23.62 x 16.61 x 2.18 cm)
  • Category Cooking / Wine
  • Library of Congress subjects Food - History, Cookery - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006021049
  • Dewey Decimal Code 641.3
  • Quantity available 1
  • Bookseller catalogues Reference & Food Writing

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From the publisher

Food has functioned both as a source of continuity and as a subject of adaptation in the course of human history. Onions have been a staple of the European diet since the Paleolithic era, while the orange is once again being cultivated in great quantities in Southern China, where it was originally cultivated. Other foods--such as the apple and pear in Central Asia, the tomato in Mexico, the chili pepper in South America, and rice in South Asia--remain staples of their original regions and of the world diet today.Still other items are now grown in places that would have seemed impossible in the past-bananas in geothermally heated greenhouses in Iceland, corn on the fringes of the Gobi, and tomatoes in space. But how did humans discover how to grow and consume these foods in the first place? How were they chosen over competing foods? How did they come to be so important to us? In this charming and frequently surprising compendium, Gregory McNamee gathers revelations from history, anthropology, chemistry, biology, and many other fields, and spins them into entertaining tales of discovery, complete with delicious recipes from many culinary traditions around the world.

Among the 30 types of food discussed in the course of this alphabetically-arranged work are: the apple, the banana, chocolate, coffee, corn, garlic, honey, millet, the olive, the peanut, the pineapple, the plum, rice, the soybean, the tomato, and the watermelon. All of the recipes included with these diverse food histories have been adapted for recreation in the modern kitchen.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 03/01/2007, Page 49
  • Library Journal, 03/01/2007, Page 100
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2007, Page 311

About the author

Gregory McNamee is a writer, editor, photographer, publisher, and publishing consultant. He is the author or editor of more than twenty-five books, among them Blue Mountains Far Away: Journeys Into the American Wilderness, Gila: The Life and Death of an American River, and American Byzantium: The New Las Vegas. McNamee's work has appeared in such 5ournals and online publications as Science News, The Nation, Newsday, Discovery, The Los Angeles Times, Salon, and The Washington Post. He is a contributing editor to The Bloomsbury Review, a regular reviewer for Kirkus Reviews, and the literary critic and books columnist for The Hollywood Reporter. McNamee is also a consultant in world geography to the Encyclopaedia Britannica and a regular contributor to it and its online adjunct, Britannica.com.
Please visit www.gregorymcnamee.com for more information. For news about this book, please visit http: //moveable-feasts.blogspot.com.

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