6:48 am in America, current events, food & drink, Schlosser, Eric | 1 Comment
What the All-American Meal is Doing to the World
by Eric Schlosser (2001)
A very readable history of fast-food industry and its impacts on social and cultural landscape.
11:45 pm in Coe, Michael D., Coe, Sophie D., food & drink, history, Recommended | 1 Comment
by Sophie D. Coe, Michael D. Coe (2003).
Examines the origin of processed cacao and its history and sociological importance/pervasiveness from pre-Columbian Mesoamerican culture to present day.
5:25 pm in Camporesi, Piero, Europe, food & drink, history, Italy | No Comments
Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe
by Piero Camporesi (1989)
An account on how many people in early modern Europe lived in a state of almost permanent hallucination, drugged by their hunger or by bread adulterated with hallucinogenic herbs.
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