How Urbanism Changes Foodways by Monica L. Smith PAPERBACK 9781009564922

Name: How Urbanism Changes Foodways by Monica L. Smith PAPERBACK 9781009564922
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

How Urbanism Changes FoodwaysAuthor(s): Monica L. Smith\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009564922, 978-1009564922\nSynopsis\nThe advent of urbanism had profound impacts on landscape management, agricultural production, food preservation, and cuisine. This Element examines the 6,000-year history of urbanism through the archaeological perspective of food, using the analysis of cooking and eating vessels, botanical remains, and animal bones along with texts and iconographic evidence to understand the foodways that spurred and accompanied the growth of cities. Human-environmental changes took place as farmers became fewer in number but increasingly essential as providers of food for city-based consumers. The Element also examines the ways in which cities today share patterns of food production and consumption with the first urban settlements, and that we can address questions of sustainability, n.