# An Edible History of Humanity

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- Book: [An Edible History of Humanity](https://www.bookquiver.com/tom-standage/an-edible-history-of-humanity) ([An Edible History of Humanity.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/tom-standage/an-edible-history-of-humanity.md))
- Authors: [Tom Standage](https://www.bookquiver.com/tom-standage)
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- ISBN: 978-18-4354-635-1
- Published: 2010-03-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Throughout history, food has done more than simply provide sustenance. It has acted as a tool of social transformation, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, military conflict and economic expansion. In An Edible History of Humanity Tom Standage serves up a hugely satisfying account of ways in which food has, indirectly, helped to shape and transform societies around the world. It is a dazzling account of gastronomic revolutions from pre-history to the present.