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Books : The Food Chronology: A Food Lover's Compendium of Events and Anecdotes, from Prehistory to the Present
by: James Trager



Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.09
EAN: 9780805052473
ISBN: 080505247X
Label: Owl Books (NY)
Manufacturer: Owl Books (NY)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 800
Publication Date: 1997-06
Publisher: Owl Books (NY)
Sales Rank: 956066
Studio: Owl Books (NY)


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Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - A Useful, if Flawed Book
Any serious student of food and food history
will find a lot of errors and inadequacies in
this book. Sometimes the material is just plain
wrong. More often, the brief comments are just
over-simplified: the section on Italy's D.O.C.
laws is an example.Most of the problems are
questions of emphasis: there are 25 entries for
'pasta' and none for 'soba'. None of the entries
about wine mention the development of bottling,
which is surely one of the most important innova
tions. As other reviewers have observed, there
is a disproportionate emphasis on America and
Europe and the curious inclusion of many short-
lived restaurants.

So with all these cavils, what's the point of
this book and why does it rate three stars?
This books great virtue is as a corrective
companion to all those histories that ignore
food. If you believe that people follow their
food and that nutrition and gastronomy often
lie beneath the big topics in history, this is
your book. What was going on in the world of
food in 1776? 1812? How did salt cod and lime
juice change the course of the European
exploration of the rest of the world?

This is history in a blink-without much
sense of context and no report of the ideas
about food that lurked behind the events.
But it is a valuable dose of perspective and
an excellent starting point. It is also, for
those times and places where a quick browsing
read is desireable, irreplaceable.

My copy sits on a shelf near the rocker in
my kitchen. Another chef of my acquaintance
keeps his in the bathroom. As with so many
things, this book is a pleasure if you know
where it belongs.


Lynn Hoffman, author of The New Short Course in Wine
and the forthcoming novel bang-BANG from kunati press.



Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - The First Thanksgiving?
I'm told that Mr. Trager's book states that the first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621. The first Yankee Thanksgiving, perhaps. Others suggest that the first Thanksgiving was near EL Paso TX in 1598 by Don Juan de Onate and about 400 Spanish colonists after they traveled north across the desert and crossed the Rio Grande river. It was celebrated a full 23 years prior to the Pilgram Thanksgiving in Plymouth MA.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The best book you will ever find on this subject
Utterly comprehensive, fantasically informative and an utter delight. If you like food, you'll love this! How anyone else gave it less than five stars I can't imagine



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Mistakes, Yes, But Value Nevertheless
I agree with other reviewers that Trager's book contains numerous errors. Nevertheless, there's nothing I've read quite like it for breadth of coverage of food history. The book is a resource for food writers like me, or anyone who wants a good source of ideas about food. I can check my facts elsewhere. I particularly enjoy Trager's treatment of food processing and industrial food history, as well as his analysis of food and nutrition fads over the past few centuries. His coverage of food-related and deficiency illnesses is also deep, and has spurred me to further reading. If you read The Food Chronology from cover to cover, as I did over a period of several months, you cannot help but be stimulated and enriched.

Food writer Elliot Essman's other reviews and food articles are available at www.stylegourmet.com

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