Cuisine and Empire

Probing beneath the apparent confusion of dozens of cuisines, this book shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers. It emphasizes how cooking turns farm products into food.

Cercetand dincolo de aparenta confuzie a zeci de bucatarii, aceasta carte arata cum negustorii, misionarii si militarii au dus bucatariile peste munti, oceane, deserturi si peste frontierele politice. Subliniaza modul in care gatitul transforma produsele agricole in alimente.