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- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The First World Cuisine
- Chinese Cuisine
- Food in the Classical Mediterranean
- Multiethnic Eating in the Muslim World
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- PART I: The Ingredients of Change
- 2. The Columbian Exchange
- Mexico
- Peru
- Return Passages
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- 3. Sugar, Spice, and Blood
- Africa’s Many Cuisines
- Spice Wars
- Sugar and Slaves
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- 4. Nouvelles Cuisines
- An Aristocracy of the Fork
- English Country Cooking
- Coffee and the Public Sphere
- “The Way of the Cutting Knife”
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- 5. Moral and Political Economies
- The Hunger of Early Capitalism
- China’s Ever-Normal Granary
- The Ottoman Empire
- The Irish Potato Famine
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- PART II: The Taste of Modernity
- 6. The Industrial Kitchen
- New Technologies
- New Foods
- New Worries
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- 7. Cuisine and Nation Building
- French Gastronomy
- Latin America
- Asia
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- 8. Empires of Food
- Asia
- Africa
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- 9. Migrant Cuisines
- Chop Suey
- Spaghetti and Meatballs
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- PART III: The Global Palate
- 10. Guns and Butter
- Wars of Attrition
- Food for the State
- The Kitchen Debate
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- 11. The Green Revolution
- Modernizing Agriculture
- Persistent Famines
- Mad Cows and GM Imperialism
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- 12. McDonaldization and Its Discontents
- The Empire of Fast Food
- The Global Supermarket
- Resistance and Accommodation
- The Obesity Epidemic
- The Climate Crisis
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- 13. Culinary Pluralism
- Postcolonial Cuisines
- Food and Citizenship
- The Quest for Sovereignty
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- Conclusion
- Index
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