What we eat : a global history of food
A political, social, but also intimate world history of food that brilliantly shows us the tension between the promotion of specific cultural identities and the standardization of habits that we usually associate with globalization. Coffee originated as an Ethiopian drink before becoming a globalized product. Ketchup, a symbol of America, is now made largely from Chinese tomato paste. In this book, two historian editors asked some 70 historians t...