Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world’s great cuisines―from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present―in this superbly researched book.

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Cuisine-Empire-Cooking-History-California/dp/0520286316

Transcript: https://www.humanprogress.org/rachel-laudan-the-human-progress-podcast-ep-10-transcript/

Rachel Laudan is a food historian, an author of the prizewinning Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History.

Learn more: https://www.rachellaudan.com/