| Uniform title | Histoire naturelle & morale de la nourriture. English |
| Contents |
Collecting gathering hunting -- Collection honey -- The history of gathering -- Hunting -- Stock-breeding arable farming: meat, milk, cereals -- The history of meat -- The history of dairy produce -- The history of cereals -- The three sacramental foods: oil, bread, wine -- The history of oil -- The history of bread and cakes -- The history of wine -- The economy of the markets -- The history of fish -- The history of poultry -- Luxury foods -- Treasures from the sea -- The treasure of the forests -- The era of the merchants -- An essential food -- Spice at any price -- New needs: sugar, chocolate, coffee, tea -- The lure of sugar -- Confectionery and preserves -- Chocolate and divinity -- Coffee and politics -- Tea and philosophy -- Orchards and kitchen gardens -- The tradition of fruits -- The evolution of vegetables -- The potato revolution -- Science and conscience in the diet -- Preserving by heat -- Preserving by cold -- The reassurance of dietetics -- A reassuring future. |
| Abstract |
Pioneering food historian Toussaint-Samat has expanded her 1987 French classic (English translation, 1992) to include updates on scientific and technological discoveries. She divides her account into nine major sections, which range from discussions of food gathering and production techniques to histories of individual types of food to the role played by science in nutrition and food preservation. She broadens her account to examine the importance of food in myth and legend. Further, she explores the role played by food--hunger in particular--as a generative force in shaping the direction of human history. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 723-732) and index. |
| Language | Translated from the French. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Toussaint-Samat, Maguelonne, 1926- Histoire naturelle & morale de la nourriture. English. History of food. New expanded ed. Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
| LCCN | 2009417192 |
| ISBN | 9781405181198 (hdbk.) |
| ISBN | 1405181192 (hdbk.) |
