Midwest Maize

How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland

Cynthia Clampitt (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2015
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08057-9 (ISBN)

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Food historian Cynthia Clampitt pens the epic story of what happened when Mesoamerican farmers bred a nondescript grass into a staff of life so prolific, so protean, that it represents nothing less than one of humankind's greatest achievements. Blending history with expert reportage, she traces the disparate threads that have woven corn into the fabric of our diet, politics, economy, science, and cuisine. At the same time she explores its future as a source of energy and the foundation of seemingly limitless green technologies. The result is a bourbon-to-biofuels portrait of the astonishing plant that sustains the world.

Cynthia Clampitt is a food historian and travel writer, and the author of Waltzing Australia.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.2015
Reihe/Serie	Heartland Foodways
Zusatzinfo	19 black and white photographs
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	426 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Länderküchen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	0-252-08057-2 / 0252080572
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08057-9 / 9780252080579
Zustand	Neuware