Eats History: Cooking with Fire to Printing Up Pizza

by Tom Hughes

Identifying where humans hunted, gathered, fished, farmed, processed, cooked, ate, and exchanged and industrialized their food, with a nod to how a more sustainable system may feed us in the future.

554 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2017

Reviews

[John Sayles · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed this lengthy and thoroughly researched book about food and its long and varied history. Author Tom Hughes notes that his "main objective in writing this book was to showcase places where the public could find out about the history and social influence of the foods they eat," and the majority of the book takes the reader chapter by chapter on a rich and detailed journey to food heritage sites and food museums all over the world that cover almost every imaginable angle, from different foods themselves to their means of transport and processing. The story of the author's own initial dive into the world of food and food history, via his creation of the world's first potato museum in Belgium in the 1970s, is fascinating. Highly recommended for Foodies everywhere!