Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilization by Andrew Rimas, Evan D.G. Fraser

Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilization

Andrew Rimas, Evan D.G. Fraser

320 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced

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We are what we eat: this aphorism contains a profound truth about civilization, one that has played out on the world historical stage over many millennia of human endeavor. Using the colorful diaries of a sixteenth-century merchant as a narrative ...

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