Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat

by Bee Wilson

Book Overview

Award-winning food writer Bee Wilson's secret history of kitchens, showing how new technologies - from the fork to the microwave and beyond - have fundamentally shaped how and what we eat.
Since prehistory, humans have braved sharp knives, fire, and grindstones to transform raw ingredients into something delicious--or at least edible. But these tools have also transformed how we consume, and how we think about, our food. In Consider...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465056970
• ISBN13: 9780465056972
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.3"