In this eclectic book of food history, Tom Nealon takes on such overlooked themes as carp and the Crusades, brown sauce and Byron, and chillies and cannibalism, and suggests that hunger and taste are the twin forces that secretly defined the course of civilization. Through war and plague, revolution and migration, people have always had to eat. What and how they ate provoked cu...(展开全部)

汤姆·尼伦（Tom Nealon） 古董食谱专家。在波士顿经营一家古籍珍本书店，专攻早期印刷书籍，特别是食谱与文学，并时常在网络上发表关于食物历史的文章。

This richly illustrated book is the first to apply the discoveries of the new generation of food historians to the pleasures of dining and the culinary accomplishments of diverse civilizations, past and present. Editor Paul Freedman has gathered essays by French, German, Belgian, American, and British historians to present a comprehensive, chronological history of taste from pr...(展开全部)

保罗·弗里德曼（Paul Freedman），耶鲁大学历史学Chester D. Tripp教授，历史系前主席。主要研究领域包括中世纪社会史、西班牙史、农民史、奢侈品贸易史、食物历史等。他的著作《中世纪农民的图像》（Images of the Medieval Peasant）荣获2002年美国中世纪研究院哈金斯奖章。几十年来他一直致力于在许多国家寻找和发现精致美食及其发展历程。

This richly illustrated book is the first to apply the discoveries of the new generation of food historians to the pleasures of dining and the culinary accomplishments of diverse civilizations, past and present. Editor Paul Freedman has gathered essays by French, German, Belgian, American, and British historians to present a comprehensive, chronological history of taste from pr...(展开全部)

In "Near a Thousand Tables, " acclaimed food historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto tells the fascinating story of food as cultural as well as culinary history -- a window on the history of mankind.In this "appetizingly provocative" "(Los Angeles Times)" book, he guides readers through the eight great revolutions in the world history of food: the origins of cooking, which set human...(展开全部)

LAURA ROWE has been writing about food and drink in the UK for more than a decade. She's written for the Guardian's Word of Mouth food blog, Olive magazine, Lovefood.com, thewelshmenu.com and has edited the Guild of Food Writers Food Magazine of the Year (2013), Crumbs, in the South West for the past two years. When she's not eating and drinking her way around the cou...(展开全部)

The Marvel Universe is no more! The interdimensional Incursions have eliminated each and every alternate universe one by one. And now - despite the best eff orts of scientists, sages and superhumans - the Marvel Universe and Ultimate Universe have collided...and been destroyed! All that exists in the vast empty cosmos is a single, titanic patchwork planet made of the fragmented...(展开全部)

The Marvel Universe is no more! The interdimensional Incursions have eliminated each and every dimension one by one - and now, despite the best eff orts of the scientists, sages and superhumans of both dimensions, the Marvel Universe and Ultimate Universe have collided with one another...and been destroyed! Now, all that exists in the vast empty cosmos is a single titanic patch...(展开全部)

海伦·刘易斯（Helen Lewis） 英国记者、作家，《大西洋》杂志特约撰稿人，《新政治家》杂志前副主编。曾为《卫报》《星期日泰晤士报》《纽约时报》等媒体撰稿，主持BBC广播四台的多档节目。著有《难缠的女人》《天才神话》。 +++ 【译者简介】 陈薇薇 自由译者。从事翻译十余载，译有《法国简史》《北方的观念》《蒙娜丽莎传奇》《概率统治世界》等。