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Cuisine as a Historical Record: How Food Reveals the Past
Cuisine preserves traces of trade, migration, empire, technology and cultural change, showing how food can serve as evidence of history.

Cuisine preserves traces of trade, migration, empire, technology and cultural change, showing how food can serve as evidence of history.

Foods travel with merchants, migrants, armies, empires and corporations. Yet they rarely arrive unchanged: local ingredients, tastes and identities reshape them until imported foo…