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Chargement... A Movable Feast: Ten Millennia of Food Globalizationpar Kenneth F. Kiple
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A history of the animals, plants, and processes that make up our food, from the dawn of civilization into modernity. There's some interesting information in here, but it's hidden in what are basically lists. This book is exactly as exciting as an encyclopedia. Now, when I was younger I confess to voluntarily reading encyclopedias from cover to cover (though I never got past the first N volume), but that was for lack of other reading material. Once in a while, a spark of a thesis glimmered, but it was smothered under piles of facts. Still, Kiple's basic points stand up to his yawn-inducing style: the development of agriculture was good for the survival of the human species but bad for our health; GMOs are the bestest; politics, wars, and borders are inextricably linked with foodstuffs. ( ) Essentially a distillation of the "Cambridge World History of Food," the author traces the paths by which the modern cuisines of the world came to be, and the attendant health and social issues that these processes have left in their wake. At the very least I'm reminded of the notorious quip by Tony Bourdain that great cuisine is the result of non-consensual relations with invading armies! Sweeping yet detailed, Kenneth KIpple's A Movable Feast covers the long haul of humanity's appetite beginning with the Neolithic Revolution that to this day still largely dictates our diet and thus our health. The irony which Kibble so vividly paints is that while the feast has been movable, our lives have become increasingly sedentary. Yet as we remain the beast, the last surviving hominid (there were at least three others 10,000 years ago), that two million years of evolution designed to be a mobile hunter-gatherer, our sedentary lifestyles present all sorts of health complications from tooth decay to obesity to diabetes. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Pepper was once worth its weight in gold. Onions have been used to cure everything from sore throats to foot fungus. White bread was once considered too nutritious. From hunting water buffalo to farming salmon, A Movable Feast chronicles the globalization of food over the past ten thousand years. This engaging history follows the path that food has taken throughout history and the ways in which humans have altered its course. Beginning with the days of hunter-gatherers and extending to the present world of genetically modified chickens, Kenneth F. Kiple details the far-reaching adventure of food. He investigates food's global impact, from the Irish potato famine to the birth of McDonald's. Combining fascinating facts with historical evidence, this is a sweeping narrative of food's place in the world. Looking closely at geographic, cultural and scientific factors, this book reveals how what we eat has transformed over the years from fuel to art. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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