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Una Storia Commestibile Dell'umanità (2009)

by Tom Standage(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

8875781400 (ISBN13: 9788875781408)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Codice

review 1: The narrator had some ludicrous fake accents that were worthy of a seventies sitcom. The author's bent seemed positively colonial at times. There were interesting parts, for sure, but much of it made me sputter, "Wait! What about the slavery that caused this to be a profitable crop?" or "Wait! What about the runoff from this awesome fertilizer?" or "Wait! Can we talk about how Monsanto sucks?" Standage appears to have unlimited faith in technology, and I don't.
review 2: The husband and I listened to this one on and off during a few road trips. Interesting topic – looking at the ways food production and advances drove human history – and I liked the different topics covered. The author covered everything from early agriculture and the development of mode... morern corn, rice and cereal grains to the importance of food supplies in military campaigns to the spice trade’s role in global exploration to the focus on food production in both Russian and Chinese communism. Lots of interesting facts and while I knew a lot of the history, I had not seen it discussed from this perspective. less

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