《碳水的胜利》简介:

★温馨提示:阅读食物小史,请勿狼吞虎咽。

★精选的历史+巧妙的插图+有趣的食谱=一套杰出的食物小史

★一部面包文化史

★一场关于小麦的世界环游之旅

★探寻面包的“前世今生”,解锁碳水取得“胜利”的奥秘

★小32开精装,全彩印刷,装帧精致,掌中一握,活色生香

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——面包的“自我介绍”——

供奉神明的祭品 天然发酵的美味

早期的欧洲主食 人类文明的产物

隐藏在餐桌上的文化碰撞 社会内聚力与冲突的象征

面包像一面镜子,能够映照出一个人的形象与理想,一个地区的传统与文化,一个时代的标志与发展,甚至更多。从两万多年前新月沃土地带面包的诞生写起,以推测21世纪文化力量和生物技术的进步对面包发展的影响结束,本书探索了面包,作为食物和社会标志,所呈现出的人类文明与时代变迁。

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在轻松的逸事和严肃的历史之间取得了令人愉快的平衡。

——《书商》(The Bookseller)

在讨论面包时,人们发现自己会不自觉地进入一些历史和社会重大问题的讨论之中,正如威廉·吕贝尔在本书中所讲述的那样。本书内容丰富且引人入胜。

——《华尔街日报》(Wall Street Journal)

《碳水的胜利》摘录:

We can never know why the cultures of the Fertile Crescent gave up hunting and gathering (Adam and Eve's biblical profession) in favour of farming (Cain's biblical profession) and herding domesticated animals (Abel's biblical profession). There is archaeological evidence from skeletons that people had been healthier as hunters and gathereres and that embracing agriculture -- and bread as a staple -- was not the best choice for everyone... between the text of the Old Testament and traditional Jewish myths surrounding the first biblical generations, farming was not cast in a good light. Cain, the first farmer, was the first murderer, the first to lie to his Lord, the man responsible for the first cities, by implication built with involuntary labour. By Jewish tradition Cain was also the man ...

《碳水的胜利》目录:

前言  ... 001
1 面包早期发展史  ... 001
2 作为社会标志  ... 051
3 碳水的风味  ... 085
4 面包的奇异游记  ... 121
5 21世纪的面包  ... 161
食谱  ... 187
参考文献  ... 219
致谢  ... 221
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