Record details

• ISBN: 9781629974231
• ISBN: 1629974234
• Physical Description: 18 audio discs (18 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 textbook (vii, 368 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
• Publisher: Chantilly, VA : The Great Courses, [2017]
• Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

General Note:

"National geographic."

Formatted Contents Note:

Disc 1: Paleo diets and the ancestral appetite. -- Our hunter gatherer past. Disc 2: Stones, bones, and teeth. -- Did eating meat make us human? -- Disc 3: Insects: the other white meat. -- Was the stone age menu mostly vegetarian? -- Disc 4: Cooking and the control of fire. -- The neolithic revolution. -- Disc 5: The changing disease-scape. -- How foods spread around the world. -- Disc 6: The history of the spice trade. -- How sugar and salt shaped world history. -- Disc 7: A brief history of bread. -- The science and secrets of chocolate. -- Disc 8: Water: the liquid of life. -- Beer, mead and the fun of fermentation. -- Disc 9: Humanity's love of wine. -- Coffee: love or addiction? -- Disc 10:The roots of tea. -- The fizz on soda. -- Disc 11: Food as ritual. -- When people eat things that aren't food. -- Disc 12: Food as recreational drugs. -- Food as medicine. -- Disc 13: The coevolution of genes and diet. -- The scoop on poop. -- Disc 14: The gut microbiome. -- Brain food. -- Disc 15: You are what your mother ate. -- Civilization: diets and diseases. -- Disc 16: When the world is eating. -- The overnutrition epidemic. -- Disc 17: World poverty and undernutrition. -- Should the world at meat? -- Disc 18: Should we be powered by plants? -- The future of food.

Participant or Performer Note:

Lecturer: Professor Alyssa Crittenden.

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Subject:

Food > Social aspects > History.
Food habits > History.
Dietetics.
Dietetics.
Food habits.
Food > Social aspects.

Genre:

Audiobooks.
History.
Audiobooks.

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