Dinner in Rome: A History of the World in One Meal Viestad Andreas
Dinner in Rome: A History of the World in One Meal Viestad Andreas With a celebrated food writer as host, a delectable history of Roman cuisine and the world--served one dish at a time. "There is…
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Dinner in Rome: A History of the World in One Meal Viestad Andreas
With a celebrated food writer as host, a delectable history of Roman cuisine and the world--served one dish at a time. "There is more history in a bowl of pasta than in the Colosseum," writes Andreas Viestad in Dinner in Rome. Now in paperback.
Food, he argues, is history's secret driving force. From the table of a classic Roman restaurant, Viestad takes us on a fascinating culinary exploration of the Eternal City and global civilization. Viestad finds deeper meanings in his meal: He uses the bread that begins his dinner to trace the origins of wheat and its role in Rome's rise as well as its downfall.
With his fried artichoke antipasto, he explains olive oil's part in the religious conflict of sixteenth-century Europe. And, from his sorbet dessert, he recounts how lemons featured in the history of the Mafia in the nineteenth century and how the hunger for sugar
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