- Kitchen utensils, COOKING / History, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Food Science, SCIENCE / History
Since prehistory, humans have braved sharp knives, fire, and grindstones to transform raw ingredients into something delicious—or at least edible. Tools shape what we eat, but they have also transformed how we consume, and how we think about, our food.
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Warm, classical in form, spare and cool.
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Bee Wilson
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 372
- Publisher
- Basic Books, Tantor Audio, Penguin Books, Limited
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780465056972
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