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Gregory McNamee

Moveable Feasts

The History, Science, and Lore of Food

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Food has functioned both as a source of continuity and as a subject of adaptation over the course of human history. Onions have been a staple of the European diet since the Paleolithic era; by contrast, the orange is once again being cultivated in large quantities in southern China, where it was originally grown. Other foods remain staples of their original regions as well as of the world diet at large. Still others are now grown in places that would have seemed impossible in the past-bananas in heated greenhouses in Iceland, corn on the fringes of the Gobi Desert, tomatoes on the International Space Station. But how did humans discover how t… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8032-1632-7
  • EAN: 9780803216327
  • Produktnummer: 3450132
  • Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
  • Seitenangabe: 216 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.5 cm 301 g
  • Abbildungen: 33 images
  • Gewicht: 301

Über den Autor


Gregory McNamee is the author or editor of twenty-eight books and has published articles in a wide variety of periodicals from Smithsonian and Sierra to the Washington Post. He is a contributing editor for Encyclopaedia Britannica for which he writes about world geography and culture including food.

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