Food History World

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    • A World History
    • By: Mark Kurlansky
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 15-12-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • The author of Cod and The Basque History of the World takes an extraordinary look at an ordinary substance — salt, the only rock humans eat — and how it has shaped civilization from the very beginning....

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    • The Fate of Human Societies
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 18-01-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 783 ratings
    • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....

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    • The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
    • By: Amy Stewart
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 19-03-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Every great drink starts with a plant. Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley. Gin was born from a conifer shrub....

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    • How Science Can Set Us Straight on Our Past, Present and Future
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Stephen Perring
    • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 27-01-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • We have never had so much information at our fingertips, and yet most of us simply don't understand how our world really works. Professor Vaclav Smil is not a pessimist or an optimist, he is a scientist, and this book is a much-needed reality check on a wide range of topics....

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    • A History
    • By: William Alexander
    • Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-2022
    • Language: English
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    • New York Times best-selling author William Alexander takes listeners on the surprisingly twisty journey of the beloved tomato in this fascinating and erudite microhistory....

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    • A Plant's-Eye View of the World
    • By: Michael Pollan
    • Narrated by: Michael Pollan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 18-10-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant....

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    • Modern Avatars of Vedic Food
    • By: Hansaji J. Yogendra
    • Narrated by: Diiva Dhanoya
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-2023
    • Language: English
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    • The oldest yoga institute in the world now brings you the ultimate Sattvik cookbook that will enhance your positivity quotient and become an inseparable part of your life....

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    • Food Writing from Muslim South Asia
    • By: Claire Chambers
    • Narrated by: Seetal Iyer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-2023
    • Language: English
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    • A delectable anthology of food writing exploring the histories and cultures of Muslim South Asia. Contributors include Nadeem Aslam, Rana Safvi, Tabish Khair, Annie Zaidi, Sarvat Hasin, Tarana Husain Khan, Sadaf Hussain, Rosie Dastgir, and others....

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    • M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste
    • By: Luke Barr
    • Narrated by: John Rubinstein
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-2013
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Provence, 1970 is about a singular historic moment.....

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    • A Deep History of the Earliest States
    • By: James C. Scott
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 21-02-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains and governed by precursors of today's states? Find out....

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    • A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
    • By: Mark Kurlansky
    • Narrated by: Brian Sutherland
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the best-selling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic and culinary story of milk and all things dairy....

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    • A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
    • By: Mark Bittman
    • Narrated by: Mark Bittman
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From bestselling author and pioneering journalist Mark Bittman comes an expansive look at how history has been shaped by humanity’s appetite for food, farmland, and the money behind it all—and how a better future is within reach....

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    • The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
    • By: Benjamin Wallace
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 29-08-2008
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • It was the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold. In 1985, at a heated auction by Christie’s of London, a 1787 bottle of Château Lafite Bordeaux - one of a cache of bottles unearthed in a bricked-up Paris cellar and supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson - went for $156,000....

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    • How the Beer of Kings Changed the World
    • By: Tom Acitelli
    • Narrated by: Ax Norman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-2020
    • Language: English
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    • Pilsner shatters myths about pilsner's very birth and about its immediate parentage....

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    • A Biography of the Beer That Changed the World
    • By: Stephen Mansfield
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-06-2024
    • Language: English
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    • The history of Guinness, one of the world’s most famous brands, reveals the noble heights and generosity of a great family and an innovative business....

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    • How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World
    • By: Lizzie Collingham
    • Narrated by: Jilly Bond
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-2018
    • Language: English
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    • In 20 meals The Hungry Empire tells the story of how the British created a global network of trade in foodstuffs that moved people and plants from one continent to another, reshaping landscapes and culinary tastes....

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    • Obsession, the Deep Sea, and the Shipwreck of the Titanic
    • By: Daniel Stone
    • Narrated by: Daniel Stone
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 16-08-2022
    • Language: English
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    • On a frigid April night in 1912, the world’s largest—and soon most famous—ocean liner struck an iceberg and slipped beneath the waves. She had scarcely disappeared before her new journey began, a seemingly limitless odyssey through the world’s fixation with her every tragic detail...

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    • A Hungry Economist Explains the World
    • By: Ha-Joon Chang
    • Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
    • Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 20-10-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In Edible Economics, Chang makes challenging economic ideas more palatable by plating them alongside stories about food from around the world....

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