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Moveable Feasts: From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat
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Item Description...
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An international and historical survey of the world's food travel practices covers such topics as ancient Rome's transport of olive oil using ceramic pots, canning technology development during Napoleon's campaigns, and the lunch runners of modern Mumbai.
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Today the things we eat and drink have crossed oceans, continents, and even airspace before reaching the dinner table. The complex systems and technologies devised throughout the centuries to deliver our food supply reveal surprising things about politics, culture, economies--and our appetites. In Mumbai, India's chaotic commercial capital, men use local trains, bicycles, and their feet to transport more than 170,000 lunches a day from housewives to their husbands, with almost no mix-ups. Modern shipping containers allow companies to send frozen salmon to China, where it can be cheaply thawed, filleted, and refrozen, before traveling back to the United States where it's sold in supermarkets as fresh fish. Moveable Feasts takes a novel look at the economics, logistics, and environmental impact of food, and brings new perspective to debates about where we get our meals.
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Pages 320
Dimensions: Length: 8.19" Width: 5.43" Height: 0.94"
Weight: 0.62 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Oct 28, 2008
ISBN 0312428146
EAN 9780312428143
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 | Very Interesting Info Jan 25, 2010 |
| This is a good book is you like to know the why behinde the things she talks about. ONe thing I would point out is that she does use jump for subject to subject within each chapter, though this is to show how each item is connected to the one before. I would read it, I still quote passages from this book. | | |  | The Call of Exotic Foods Has Been Around A Long Time Jan 14, 2009 |
| One of the rallying cries in the localvore movement is that shipping food out of the area its grown, increases the carbon cost of the meal due to the transportation; usually the image of out of season tomatoes or fruits being air freighted in from the Southern Hemisphere is used. However, food has been shipped great lengths for many centuries, from rare delicacies and staples being shipped from all corners of the Roman empire to the capitol city, to the invention of the barrel that allowed meats to be salted and shipped across the oceans. /Moveable Feasts/ is a collection of essays about food and its travels, told in an engaging style, great for the foodie, history buff or traveler. Banana boats, grain elevators, the tin can, the barrel and the clipper ship all make an appearance. After you read this, you'll be well armed to argue with your neighborhood localvore that eating local isn't the natural way; people have always craved the strange and exotic foods from far way. | | | | Fun and informative. Sep 22, 2008 |
| This is an enjoyable book that combines concrete information and statistics, history, and very interesting anecdotes about what lands on the dinner table. The voyages and cultural context of meals past and present are discussed in a well-written work that is fun to read. Most readers will probably have an "I never knew that!" experience while reading. For those of us that love to read, what could be better? | | | | An enjoyable and fascinating read Dec 17, 2007 |
"Food transport" sounds like a prosaic topic for a book but this work is the product of an intellectually curious mind. Sarah Murray has gone to great lengths to bring readers this entertaining and highly informative read; eating fermented mare's milk in Mongolia, squeezing into crowded train compartments with the Tiffin Wallas of India, and joining a flight crew for an emergency food drop from a UN World Food Transport plane.
My favorite chapter was the author's fascinating retelling of the Berlin Airlift. A topic that most of us learned at school is brought new life and energy by the author's in-depth interviews with the pilots who brought off this logistically flawless operation.
For anybody interested in history, economics, and how capitalism both solves and creates problems, I recommend, "Moveable Feasts." If you liked Tom Friedman's "The World Is Flat," you'll love this book. | | | | Food for Thought Dec 9, 2007 |
| I found this to be an insightful, entertaining and well-written book that provides some of the human context to the debate over the carbon footprint of the food we eat. There are some shrill and ultimately uninformed voices out there: Sarah's is not one of them. | | | Write your own review about Moveable Feasts: From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat
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