Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world’s great cuisines—from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago

Cuisine and Culture presents a multicultural and multiethnic approach that draws connections between major historical events and how and why these events affect

With a uniquely balanced combination of salty, sweet, sour, and spicy flavors, Thai food burst onto Los Angeles’s and America’s culinary scene in the 1980s.

This book explores food from a philosophical perspective, bringing together leading philosophers to consider the most basic questions about food. Each essay ana

This meticulously researched, beautiful volume offers fresh and lively insight into an empire and cuisine that until recent decades has been too narrowly viewed