Food History: Food History- General (Con'td)

Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-264) and index
"This book provides a comprehensive culinary history of soup in all its forms. Part One provides an overview of the earliest cuisines of the ancient world. Part Two examines soup in the New World. Appendices detail vegetables and herbs used in centuries-old soup recipes and contains dozens of recipes from the medieval era through World War II"--Provided by publisher

Contents The family tree -- Of bagels and kings -- Rituals, rhymes and revolutions: how the bagel lost its worth but kept its value -- Bagel polemics in an independent Poland -- Boiling over: the immigrant bagel and the struggle for workers' rights -- 'Kings of the line': the story of Bagel Bakers' Union Local No. 338 -- The 'bagelising' of America