Food fights and culture wars : a secret history of taste /
Tom Nealon.
- 223 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 26 cm
Includes index.
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.
9780712356589 (hbk.) : £20.00 0712356584
Food habits--History. Food--Social aspects--History. Food and Drink. Food and Drink.