Food Fight! A Mouthwatering History of Who Ate What and Why Through the Ages
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A Mouthwatering History of WHO Ate WHAT and WHY Through the Ages By Tanya Steel With 30 Recipes NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WASHINGTON D C
Dedication I dedicate this book to YOU dear reader and to all the millions of other children around the world to better inspire you and them to be the greatest happiest healthiest and smartest people ever I also dedicate this to my sons William and Sanger Steel for whom my husband and I do everything and we mean that literally and figuratively and who will always be the light of our lives and souls Finally to my husband of more than two decades Bob Steel who is the sweetest and kindest person I know
Contents Introduction Safety Tips Chapter 1 The Prehistoric Era Cave Kids Catching Dinner and Camp Cookouts Chapter 2 Egypt Feasts for Mummies Mommies and Pharaohs Chapter 3 Greece Gods Goats and Greek Yogurt Chapter 4 Rome Chariots Circuses and Roast Cranes Chapter 5 Medieval Times Barbarians Braised Peacock and Damsels Sometimes in Distress Chapter 6 Mongols the Silk Road Genghis Gers and Yogurt Chapter 7 The Renaissance Turnspit Dogs Sugar Castles and Flying Machines Chapter 8 America Revolts Iced Tea False Teeth and Flummeries and Syllabubs Chapter 9 The French Revolution Terror Reigns Restaurants Debut and Few Eat Cake Chapter 10 The Industrial Revolution Children and Machines Enter the Workforce En Masse Chapter 11 World War I Hatred and Hunger Spread Chapter 12 America’s Great Depression Breadlines the Dust Bowl and a Crashing Economy Chapter 13 The World at War Again Food Rations Victory Gardens and Patriotic Pies Chapter 14 The Sixties Flower Power Apollo and Space-Age Food Chapter 15 Future World Imagined Life on Mars I can’t wait to dig in Food Timeline Acknowledgments Recipe Index Bibliography and Further Reading Index Credits Copyright 6 7 8 18 28 38 48 58 68 78 88 98 108 118 128 138 148 152 154 155 156 157 159 160
