Explains how the development of food preservation techniques changed world history.

Condensed milk : the development of the early canning industry -- Growing a better pea : canners, farmers, and agricultural scientists in the 1910s and 1920s --

A topical and richly entertaining history of food preservation and food waste in Britain from the sixteenth-century kitchen to the present day. In Leftovers, El

The West's history is one of extraordinary success; no other region, empire, culture, or civilization has left so powerful a mark upon the world. The Rise of We