Pickled, Potted, and Canned: How the Art and Science of Food Preserving Changed the World Shephard SuePaperback
Pickled, Potted, and Canned: How the Art and Science of Food Preserving Changed the World Shephard SuePaperback We may not give much thought to the boxes in our freezers or the cans on our shelves,…
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Pickled, Potted, and Canned: How the Art and Science of Food Preserving Changed the World Shephard SuePaperback
We may not give much thought to the boxes in our freezers or the cans on our shelves, but behind the story of food preservation is the history of civilization itself. In Pickled, Potted, and Canned, author Sue Shephard weaves together the stories of the inventors -- and inventions -- in a lively and richly detailed narrative that spans centuries and continents. The development of portable, preserved food enabled the great explorers to travel into the unknown and gradually map the planet, facilitated the conquest of new territories, and created routes for the expansion of trade and the exchange of knowledge and culture that opened up our world.
It is a tale filled with extraordinary characters, old legends, and new revelations: how Attila the Hun and his men gallop cured their meat; how cooks became chemists and chemists became cooks and how some even lost their lives, like
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