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A History of the World in Six Glasses
A History of the World in Six Glasses© 2006 Tom Standage311 pages A toast to human enterprise! Pick your poison — beer, wine, rum, tea, coffee, or Coca-Cola. Three are alcoholic, three are caffienated: all were the stuff of empires, … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged America, American Revolution, ancient world, Britain, China, classical world, Egypt, food, food and drink, goods/services, Greece, history, Rome, social history
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Catching Fire
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human © 2009 Richard Wrangham309 pages Cooking has created a great many fantastic dish throughout the centuries, but Richard Wrangham holds that the culinary art’s greatest triumph is us — humanity, for the advent of … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, science
Tagged anthropology, evolution, food, food and drink, natural history, nutrition, science
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Fast Food Nation
Fast Food Nation: the Dark Side of the All-American Meal© 2001 Eric Schlosser362 pages I underestimated Fast Food Nation. I’d expected a heated attack on the subject from a nutritional standpoint, but Eric Schlosser’s history and overview of fast food’s … Continue reading
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Tagged critical history, Eric Schlosser, food, food and drink, goods/services, marketing, nutrition, social criticism, Society and Culture
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Salt
Salt: A World History© 2003 Mark Kurlansky498 pages Last Autumn, my doctor advised me to start watching the amount of salt in my diet, and so I did. That this was a concern surprised me: I was never one to … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged Britain, China, economics, Egypt, food, food and drink, goods/services, history, Rome
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In Defense of Food
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto© 2009 Michael Pollan256 pages Michael Pollan’s seminal work, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, established that there’s no such thing as a free, or even a cheap, lunch. The low-cost processed foods that the American diet … Continue reading
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Tagged food, food and drink, Michael Pollan, nutrition, social criticism, Society and Culture
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