Food – Waverley Root

Description

A comprehensive, authoritative, and witty guide to foods of the world from ancient times to the present encompasses their hunting or harvesting, preparation, uses in daily eating, functions in primitive rites, and moreRoot is one of the world’s leading food authorities and in this comprehensive volume he shares two hundred delightful essays, as well as shorter entries, on the foods of the world, discussing the history of food, from ancient to modern times, and offering a host of food facts and trivia, accompanied by two hundred illustrations.