Why We Eat What We Eat: How the Encounter Between the New World and the Old Changed the Way Everyone on the Planet Eats
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0671667963 / Publisher: Summit Books, September 1991
Discusses cuisines developed when European foods and techniques met those of the Americas, Africa, and Asia, and contemporary cookery that combines ideas from around the world
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Following the charts of Columbus and his successors, Sokolov journeys to Puerto Rico, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Peru, and the Philippines, sampling the local cuisines and revealing how Europeans, Americans, and Asians came to eat what they eat today. Lively and informative. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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