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Title: not worth my time
Review: If you're looking for a serious reading about the history of food then this book is not for you. It lacks sources, there are neither footnotes nor a bibliography at the end so one can only guess where does he get his info from. This is particularly troubling when one finds bold assertions such as when the author states that there was no hunger among the Aztecs and the Incas before Columbus (Chapter 7). The second major problems is that there's no serious effort at an in-depth analysis of what food represents in human society, the writer consistently prefers to tell amusing stories rather than engage in serious scientific enquiry. IMHO you'd be better off buying something else, for instanceFood and Love: A Cultural History of East and Westby Jack Goody.
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