Fats : a global history /
No other food is as nutritionally crucial, symbolically important or controversial as fat. Butter, oil, tallow, lard, schmaltz - culinary fats have not only shaped world cuisines, they are themselves steeped in cultural and symbolic meanings. From Palaeolithic times to contemporary popular culture,...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London, UK :
Reaktion Books Ltd,
2016.
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| Series: | Edible.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Power and prestige : fats in history
- Fats around the world : cooking with fat
- Nutritional science weighs in : the changing fate of fats
- Manufacturing fats : low-fat, no-fat, artificial fat
- Desire and defilement : fats in popular culture.