Foods that changed history : how foods shaped civilization from the ancient world to the present /: how foods shaped civilization from the ancient world to the present. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Christopher Cumo.
• Authors: Cumo, Christopher
• Contents: Alphabetical list of entries -- Topical list of entries -- Preface -- Introduction -- Timeline -- A-Z entries -- Bibliography, Index. Apple -- Banana -- Beans -- Beef -- Beer -- Bread -- Breakfast cereal -- Burrito -- Butter and other fats -- Cake -- Canned foods -- Cassava -- Cheese -- Chicken -- Chickpea -- Chili -- Chocolate -- Chop suey -- Cider -- Cinnamon -- Citrus fruits -- Coca-cola -- Coconut -- Coffee -- Cookie -- Corn -- Corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup -- Date -- Duck -- Dumplings -- Egg -- Enchilada -- Fish -- French fries -- Frozen food -- Garlic -- Goose -- Honey -- Hopping John -- Hot dog -- Ice cream -- Ketchup -- Kool-aid -- Lentils -- Macaroni and cheese -- Milk -- Millet -- Molasses -- Mushrooms -- Mutton and lamb -- Nuts -- Oats -- Olive oil -- Onion -- Orange juice -- Organic foods -- Palm oil -- Pancakes -- Pasta -- Pea -- Peanut -- Peanut butter -- Pepper -- Pineapple -- Pizza -- Pork -- Potato -- Potato chip -- Rice -- Rice liquor -- Rye -- Salsa -- Salt -- Sandwich -- Sorghum -- Soup -- Soybeans and their foods -- Spam -- Sugar -- Sweet potato -- Taco -- Tea -- Tomato -- Tortilla -- Turkey -- Turnip -- Vanilla -- Vitamin pill -- Watermelon -- Weight loss products -- Whiskey -- WIne -- Yam.
• Publisher Details: Santa Barbara, California Denver, Colorado : ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxii, 451 pages ), illustrations
• Subjects: 641.3003; Food -- History -- Encyclopedias; Agriculture -- History -- Encyclopedias; Cooking -- History -- Encyclopedias; Civilization -- History -- Encyclopedias; Aliments -- Histoire -- Encyclopédies; Agriculture -- Histoire -- Encyclopédies; Civilisation -- Histoire -- Encyclopédies; Agriculture; Civilization; Cooking; Food; Mat -- historia; Encyclopedia; Encyclopedias; encyclopedias; Encyclopedias; History; Encyclopedias; Encyclopédies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9798216085973
• Related ISBNs: 9781440835360; 1440835365
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-437) and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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