ANTB64H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Howlong, Eurocentrism
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Mintz book not only about the production of food but the consumption of food as well don"t any longer just celebrate some isolated tribe, because people are connected by colonialism, distribution and production, that have even facilitated looking at ppl and cultures comparatively shift in 19th century in the centuries preceding sugar was imported into britain, tea to india, coffee to france this had to do with the situations back home; they were fighting each other these explorations need food that"s going to last long. We have things that have been with us for several years; 200+ years, thanks to certain inventiveness the biscuits these inventors would plant their bakeries near a hotel that would be going elsewhere, which they would taste and think it was great you would find these foods that are not necessarily available they are consistent with the kinds of developments that have been going on for some time.