Yale University Press, Date: 1990. Paperback. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1990. Yale University Press ISBN 0300047398 9780300047394 [US]

ISBN10: 0300047398, ISBN13: 9780300047394, [publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven] Softcover Paperback. To feed a quarter of the worlds population on only seven percent of the worlds cultivated land and at the same time to have developed a renowned cuisine is perhaps the most exemplary achievement of the Chinese people. What accounts for their success? And what can be learned from it?"Lively and engaging. . . . Food is placed in its contexts, which range from questions of land tenure to those of ritual. It is a book that can be read with pleasure both by amateurs of Chinese cooking and by persons interested in issues of agriculture and nutrition."Ann Waltner, Annals of the American Academy of Political & Social ScienceE.N. Andersons comprehensive, entertaining historical and ethnographic account of Chinese food from the Bronze Age to the twentieth century shows how food has been central to Chinese governmental policies, religious rituals, and health practices from earliest times. The historical survey of agricultural and culinary customs, in the first half of the book, offers a wealth of fact and interpretation on such topics as the effect of government policy on agricultural innovation; the relation of medical beliefs to appetizing cuisine; the recycling of waste products on the farm; the traditional absence of food taboos (including the practicality of eating ones pests, or feeding them to pigs and chickens, instead of poisoning them and the ...
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ISBN10: 0300047398, ISBN13: 9780300047394, [publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven] Softcover Paperback. To feed a quarter of the worlds population on only seven percent of the worlds cultivated land and at the same time to have developed a renowned cuisine is perhaps the most exemplary achievement of the Chinese people. What accounts for their success? And what can be learned from it?"Lively and engaging. . . . Food is placed in its contexts, which range from questions of land tenure to those of ritual. It is a book that can be read with pleasure both by amateurs of Chinese cooking and by persons interested in issues of agriculture and nutrition."Ann Waltner, Annals of the American Academy of Political & Social ScienceE.N. Andersons comprehensive, entertaining historical and ethnographic account of Chinese food from the Bronze Age to the twentieth century shows how food has been central to Chinese governmental policies, religious rituals, and health practices from earliest times. The historical survey of agricultural and culinary customs, in the first half of the book, offers a wealth of fact and interpretation on such topics as the effect of government policy on agricultural innovation; the relation of medical beliefs to appetizing cuisine; the recycling of waste products on the farm; the traditional absence of food taboos (including the practicality of eating ones pests, or feeding them to pigs and chickens, instead of poisoning them and the ...
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Yale Univ Pr 1990 Revised ed. Softcover New Reprint edition. 288 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.00 inches.

ISBN10: 0300047398, ISBN13: 9780300047394, [publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven] Softcover Paperback. 293pp+ index. Foxing to edges of textblock, else very good in publisher's wraps.
[Decatur, GA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1988]
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ISBN10: 0300047398, ISBN13: 9780300047394, [publisher: White Lotus Press, New Heaven] Softcover Food of China, The
[APO, AP, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1988]
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New Haven: Yale University Press, Date: 1988. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 293pp+ index. Foxing to edges of textblock, else very good in publisher's wraps. 1988. Yale University Press ISBN 0300047398 US