[Sca-cooks] Book Questions...

[margaret]

I reviewed this for Serve It Forth! a few years back.  Trager mixes fact, 
apocryphy, and myth with gay abandon.  This is his writing style, so any 
works by him are suspect.  The work can not be used uncritically.  That 
being said, the book is useful in tying various food stuffs to locations, 
events and dates.  I use it as a quick reference to bootstrap further 
research.  The more one knows about culinary history, the more likely the 
book is to be useful.

Bear


> QUESTION ONE
>
> I recently picked up a used copy of
> The Food Chronology
> by James Trager
>
> It is organized by century, each broken down into years, with significant 
> food, economic, and political tidbits with each. It begins with very early 
> pre-history (pre-human, in fact) not broken by year :-) The volume i have 
> ends with 1995. The book is 783 pages long, with 109 pages devoted to 
> pre-1601, 60 pages of index and no bibliography. It attempts to cover the 
> whole world, but i assume is stronger on Europe and North America.
> -- 
> Urtatim, formerly Anahita