TY - BOOK AU - Freedman,Paul TI - Food: the history of taste T2 - California studies in food and culture SN - 0520254767 AV - TX353 .F668 2007 U1 - 641.3 22 PY - 2007///] CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Food KW - History KW - Food habits N1 - "Published by arrangement with Thames & Hudson Ltd., London"--T.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-361) and index; Introduction; A new history of cuisine; Paul Freedman --; Hunter-gatherers and the first farmers: the evolution of taste in prehistory; Alan K. Outram --; The good things that lay at hand: tastes of ancient Greece and Rome; Veronika Grimm --; The quest for perfect balance: taste and gastronomy in imperial China; Joanna Waley-Cohen --; The pleasures of consumption: the birth of medieval Islamic cuisine; H. D. Miller --; Feasting and fasting: food and taste in Europe in the Middle Ages; C. M. Woolgar --; New worlds, new tastes: food fashions after the Renaissance; Brian Cowan --; The birth of the modern consumer age: food innovations from 1800; Hans J. Teuteberg --; Chefs, gourmets and gourmands: French cuisine in the 19th and 20th centuries; Alain Drouard --; Dining out: the development of the restaurant; Elliott Shore --; Novelty and tradition: the new landscape for gastronomy; Peter Scholliers ER -