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Author Sokolov, Raymond A.

Title Why we eat what we eat : how the encounter between the New World and the Old changed the way everyone on the planet eats / Raymond Sokolov.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Summit Books, [1991]
©1991

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  641.013 SOKOLOV    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  641.01 S683W    Check Shelf
Description 254 pages ; 25 cm
Note Includes index.
Contents Columbus the unwitting -- The colonial laboratory : Mexico ; Puerto Rico ; The Philippines ; The Spanish Main ; Northeast Brazil ; Peru -- The new world reshapes the old : France ; China -- Ingredients for change : tomatoes ; potatoes ; chilies ; chocolate ; manioc ; strawberries -- Rediscovering America -- U.S. colonial survivals : Olympia oysters ; wild rice ; apples ; native persimmons ; key limes ; corn ; Utah scones ; turkey ; filé ; mulberry ; chowder -- New(er) wrinkles in North and South America : Los Angeles's Grand Central Market ; tubers ; olives ; dates ; pistachios ; cherimoyas ; radicchio -- Revolution now -- Savory.
Subject Gastronomy -- History.
Food habits -- History.
Cooking -- History.
Cookbooks -- History.
Cooking -- history.
Feeding Behavior.
ISBN 0671667963: $22.00
9780671667962
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