Moveable Feasts

Gregory McNamee is the author or editor of twenty-eight books and has published articles in a wide variety of periodicals, from Smithsonian and Sierra to the Washington Post. He is a contributing editor for Encyclopaedia Britannica, for which he writes about world geography and culture, including food.

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"In delightfully readable prose, McNamee considers some 30 assorted foods that make up a substantial part of the earth's comestible bounty."—Mark Knoblauch, Booklist "All food is the product of history, but who ate the first tomatoes and garlic, and how did they become so important in our diet and ubiquitous at the grocery store? Writer, journalist, editor, and critic McNamee presents a cultural geography of how food, such as broccoli, corn, rice, and hone, has moved about the planet. Each chapter contains a brief history of the food, basic nutritional information, and trivia, spun together in a chatty, conversational tone, followed by several recipes containing the featured ingredient and suggestions for further reading."—Library Journal "The author's research is exhaustive, his pages packed with fascinating detail, and he does an excellent job of marrying the historical and scientific aspects of each ingredient. . . . Well-executed."—Kirkus "Moveable Feasts is a pleasure to read and serves to highlight the strength of an interdisciplinary approach to studying food."—Jonathan Deutsch, Gastronomica