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The Cambridge world history of food / Kenneth F. Kiple.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, U. K. : Cambridge Univeristy Pess, c2000.Description: 2v., ill. 26 cmISBN:
  • 0-521-40216-6
Subject(s): Summary: Part 2 covers foraging and farming, and the domestication of plants and animalsSummary: Part 3 focuses on the most important beverages humans have consumed as accompaniment to foodsSummary: Part 4 focuses on the history of the discovery and importance of the chief nutrients, the nutritional deficiency diseases that occur when those nutrients are not forthcoming in adequate amounts, the relationship between modern diets and major chronic diseases, and food related disordersSummary: Part 5 takes up the history and culture of food and drink around the worldSummary: Part 6 is devoted to food and nutrition-related subjects that are both of contemporary and historical interestSummary: Part 7 scrutinizes mostly contemporary food related policy questions.Summary: Presents on a global scale the works of scholars on both nutritional and food-related subjects. Endows users with an interdisciplinary foundation that uses a number of approaches to food questions ranging from the anthropological to the zoological. Contents: Part 1 collectively constitutes a bioanthropolgical investigation into the kinds and quantities of foods consumed byy early humans
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Reference Reference Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center Reference TX 353 .C144 2000 v.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 3AEA0000267421
Reference Reference Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center Reference TX 353 .C144 2000 v.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 3AEA0000267424

Part 2 covers foraging and farming, and the domestication of plants and animals

Part 3 focuses on the most important beverages humans have consumed as accompaniment to foods

Part 4 focuses on the history of the discovery and importance of the chief nutrients, the nutritional deficiency diseases that occur when those nutrients are not forthcoming in adequate amounts, the relationship between modern diets and major chronic diseases, and food related disorders

Part 5 takes up the history and culture of food and drink around the world

Part 6 is devoted to food and nutrition-related subjects that are both of contemporary and historical interest

Part 7 scrutinizes mostly contemporary food related policy questions.

Presents on a global scale the works of scholars on both nutritional and food-related subjects. Endows users with an interdisciplinary foundation that uses a number of approaches to food questions ranging from the anthropological to the zoological. Contents: Part 1 collectively constitutes a bioanthropolgical investigation into the kinds and quantities of foods consumed byy early humans

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