Food fights & culture wars : a secret history of taste
Nealon, Tom2016
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Revolution! Conflict! Gluttony! In this eclectic book of food history, Tom Nealon takes on such overlooked themes as carp and the Crusades, brown sauce and Byron, and chillies and cannibalism, and suggests that hunger and taste are the twin forces that secretly defined the course of civilisation.
Main title:
Food fights & culture wars : a secret history of taste / Tom Nealon.
Author:
Nealon, Tom, author
Imprint:
London : British Library, 2016.
Collation:
223 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 26 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9780712356589 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
394.1209
Language:
English
BRN:
1889646