Discusses the history of food, its production, and the political ramifications of its dissemination and consumption

Product Description: How have humans come to terms with their basic need for food? We couldn t survive without food, yet we don't often ponder how it was that our food became available to us. Rarely do we consider that the variety & abundance of today's edibles are the result of years & years of human ingenuity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)