Food History: Food History - General (Cont'd)

Pt. 1. The price of food. The three gorges dam -- chapter 1. Fairs: the food trade -- chapter 2. Larders: what do you do with ten thousand tons of grain? -- chapter 3. Farms: growing food for profit and environmental rapine -- Pt. 2. The price rises. An experiment in survival -- chapter 4. Water: irrigation's questionable cure -- chapter 5. Dirt: the chemistry of life -- chapter 6. Ice: preserve us -- Pt. 3. Empty pockets. Storm clouds -- chapter 7. Blood: the conquest of food -- chapter 8. Money: tea and famine -- chapter 9. Time: fair, organic, and slow -- Conclusion: the new gluttony and tomorrow's menu

Introduction -- The first world cuisine -- The ingredients of change -- The Columbian exchange -- Sugar, spice, and blood -- Nouvelle cuisines -- Moral and political economies -- The taste of modernity -- The industrial kitchen -- Cuisine and nation-building -- Empires of food -- Migrant cuisines -- The global palate -- Guns and butter -- The green revolution -- McDonaldization and its discontents -- Culinary pluralism