- Title: Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food
- Autor: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
- Pages: 272
- Publisher (Publication Date): Free Press; 1st edition (June 4, 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0743226445
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A chronicle of the eight top revolutions in the history of food traces the origins of cooking, from the inception of herding and agriculture, to the industrialization and globalization of food, citing the integral connection between food and the cultures it comes from. 25,000 first printing.