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Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006, £40/$65.
ISBN: 978 0 19 280681 9
"Food, glorious food" - what would we do without it? And what would publishers do without the plethora of books from celebrity chefs, dieticians, health experts - we have even had Fanny Hill's Cook Book (1970)! The online catalogue of the UK's largest public library at www.birmingham.gov.uk lists 410 titles at 641.5 alone, without going into further sub-divisions. But that is understandable; it is a topic with a significant impact on the human race for the whole duration of its development.
The Food Timeline at www.foodtimeline.org starts before 17000 bce with "water & ice" and before we get to 9000 bce we have already dealt with salt, shellfish, fish,...