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Beans (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781845204303)
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xWinner of The 2008 Jane Grigson Award, issued by the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP)
Winner of the 2008 Cordon d' Or Culinary Literature - History Culinary Academy Award
This is the story of the bean, the staple food cultivated by humans for over 10,000 years.
From the lentil to the soybean, every civilization on the planet has cultivated its own species of bean. The humble bean has always attracted attention - from Pythagoras' notion that the bean hosted a human soul to St. Jerome's indictment against bean-eating in convents (because they "tickle the genitals"), to current research into the deadly toxins contained in the most commonly eaten beans.
Over time, the bean has been both scorned as "poor man's meat" and praised as health-giving, even patriotic. Attitudes to this most basic of foodstuffs have always revealed a great deal about a society. Beans: A History takes the reader on a fascinating journey across cuisines and cultures.
Author: Ken Albala
ISBN-10: 1845204301
ISBN-13: 9781845204303
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2007
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 7.70h x 6.34w x 1.07d
Award: IACP Crystal Whisk Award - Winner
Award: IACP Crystal Whisk Award - Finalist
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 10/14/2007 pg. 17
Winner of the 2008 Cordon d' Or Culinary Literature - History Culinary Academy Award
This is the story of the bean, the staple food cultivated by humans for over 10,000 years.
From the lentil to the soybean, every civilization on the planet has cultivated its own species of bean. The humble bean has always attracted attention - from Pythagoras' notion that the bean hosted a human soul to St. Jerome's indictment against bean-eating in convents (because they "tickle the genitals"), to current research into the deadly toxins contained in the most commonly eaten beans.
Over time, the bean has been both scorned as "poor man's meat" and praised as health-giving, even patriotic. Attitudes to this most basic of foodstuffs have always revealed a great deal about a society. Beans: A History takes the reader on a fascinating journey across cuisines and cultures.
Author: Ken Albala
ISBN-10: 1845204301
ISBN-13: 9781845204303
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2007
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 7.70h x 6.34w x 1.07d
Award: IACP Crystal Whisk Award - Winner
Award: IACP Crystal Whisk Award - Finalist
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 10/14/2007 pg. 17
By Ken Albala
xKen Albala is Professor of History at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. He is the author of many books including Eating Right in the Renaissance, Food in Early Modern Europe, Cooking in Europe 1250-1650, The Banquet: Dining in the Great Courts of Late Renaissance Europe and Pancake. He was editor of three food series for Greenwood Press and has recently completed a 4-volume Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia. Albala is also co-editor of the journal Food Culture and Society, published by Berg.
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