World History of Food

This is a comprehensive study of the geographical, historical, political, economic, and cultural factors that influenced the choice of dishes by our ancestors in different eras. What and how did people eat in Byzantium? Which recipes from medieval Venetian cookbooks will glorify Italian cuisine? How did urban dwellers in Russia eat in the early 20th century? How did street lighting affect the daily routine? What was the first fast-food restaurant like? The author has created a scheme of the evolution of gastronomic traditions, overlaying it on the history of the world, economics, and sociology.