Food: A Cultural Culinary History

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Table of Contents



  • Course Scope ..................................................................................... Professor Biography i

  • LECTURE

  • Hunting, Gathering, and Stone Age Cooking......................................

  • LECTURE

  • What Early Agriculturalists Ate..........................................................

  • LECTURE

  • Egypt and the Gift of the Nile............................................................

  • LECTURE

  • Ancient Judea—From Eden to Kosher Laws....................................

  • LECTURE

  • Classical Greece—Wine, Olive Oil, and Trade .................................

  • LECTURE

  • The Alexandrian Exchange and the Four Humors............................

  • LECTURE

  • Ancient India—Sacred Cows and Ayurveda .....................................

  • LECTURE

  • Yin and Yang of Classical Chinese Cuisine ......................................

  • LECTURE

  • Dining in Republican and Imperial Rome .........................................

  • LECTURE

  • Early Christianity—Food Rituals and Asceticism ..............................

  • LECTURE iv

  • Europe’s Dark Ages and Charlemagne ............................................

  • LECTURE

  • Islam—A Thousand and One Nights of Cooking ..............................

  • LECTURE

  • Carnival in the High Middle Ages......................................................

  • LECTURE

  • International Gothic Cuisine .............................................................

  • LECTURE

  • A Renaissance in the Kitchen .........................................................

  • LECTURE

  • Aztecs and the Roots of Mexican Cooking

  • LECTURE

  • 1492—Globalization and Fusion Cuisines......................................

  • LECTURE

  • 16 th-Century Manners and Reformation Diets ................................

  • LECTURE

  • Papal Rome and the Spanish Golden Age .....................................

  • LECTURE

  • The Birth of French Haute Cuisine .................................................

  • LECTURE

  • Elizabethan England, Puritans, Country Food................................

  • LECTURE

  • Dutch Treat—Coffee, Tea, Sugar, Tobacco ....................................

  • LECTURE

  • African and Aboriginal Cuisines ......................................................

  • LECTURE v

  • Edo, Japan—Samurai Dining and Zen Aesthetics..........................

  • LECTURE

  • Colonial Cookery in North America.................................................

  • LECTURE

  • Eating in the Early Industrial Revolution .........................................

  • LECTURE

  • Romantics, Vegetarians, Utopians .................................................

  • LECTURE

  • First Restaurants, Chefs, and Gastronomy ....................................

  • LECTURE

  • Big Business and the Homogenization of Food..............................

  • LECTURE

  • Food Imperialism around the World ...............................................

  • LECTURE

  • Immigrant Cuisines and Ethnic Restaurants ..................................

  • LECTURE

  • War, Nutritionism, and the Great Depression .................................

  • LECTURE

  • World War II and the Advent of Fast Food......................................

  • LECTURE

  • Counterculture—From Hippies to Foodies .....................................

  • LECTURE

  • Science of New Dishes and New Organisms .................................

  • LECTURE

  • The Past as Prologue? ...................................................................

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