Description: What We Eat explores world history through the lens of the global journeys of nearly ninety food products. Leading historians trace the origins and popularization of items commonly found in supermarkets, showing how each food illuminates wider histories.
Brief description: Stephen W. Sawyer (Professor) teaches history and political thought at the American University of Paris. He has previously co-edited two volumes on French political thought of the late twentieth century and has published two monographs on the history of democracy and state-building in the nineteenth century.
Review Quotes: Using food as a lens through which to draw out the economic, cultural, and social changes wrought by globalization, contributors highlight both what's lost when foods are stripped of their cultural specificity and how cultural exchange can produce creative and beneficial results. Readers will want to dig in.-- "Publishers Weekly"