Record details

• ISBN: 9781598039481
• ISBN: 1598039482
• Physical Description: 18 audio discs (18 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
• Edition: [Unabridged].
• Publisher: Chantilly, Virginia : Great Courses, [2013]
• Copyright: ©2013

Content descriptions

General Note:

Compact discs.

Digital recording.

Thirty-six lectures on 18 discs (30 min. each).

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Course guidebook Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Hunting, gathering, and Stone Age cooking -- What early agriculturalists ate -- Egypt and the gift of the Nile -- Ancient Judea--from Eden to kosher laws -- Classical Greece--wine, olive oil, and trade -- The Alexandrian exchange and the four humors -- Ancient India--sacred cows and Ayurveda -- Yin and Yang of classical Chinese cuisine -- Dining in republican and imperial Rome -- Early Christianity--food rituals and asceticism -- Europe's Dark Ages and Charlemagne -- Islam--a thousand and one nights of cooking -- Carnival in the High Middle Ages -- International Gothic cuisine -- A Renaissance in the kitchen -- Aztecs and the roots of Mexican cooking -- 1492--globalization and fusion cuisines -- 16th century manners and reformation diets -- Papal Rome and the Spanish Golden Age -- The birth of French haute cuisine -- Elizabethan England, Puritans, country food -- Dutch treat--coffee, tea, sugar, tobacco -- African and Aboriginal cuisines -- Edo, Japan--Samurai dining and Zen aesthetics -- Colonial cookery in North America -- Eating in the early Industrial Revolution -- Romantics, vegetarians, utopians -- First restaurants, chefs, and gastronomy -- Big business and the homogenization of food -- Food imperialism around the World -- Immigrant cuisines and ethnic restaurants -- War, nutritionism, and the Great Depression -- World War II and the advent of fast food -- Counterculture--from hippies to foodies -- Science of new dishes and new organisms -- The past as prologue?

Participant or Performer Note:

Ken Albala, Professor, University of the Pacific.

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Subject:

Food > History.
Food habits > History.
Aliments > Histoire.
Habitudes alimentaires > Histoire.
Food.
Food habits.

Genre:

Talking books.
Talking books, Unabridged.
Audiobooks.
History.
Audiobooks.
Livres audio.

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