Consider the Fork
A History of How We Cook and Eat

i am making my way back into the land of reviewing.... i don't read a lot of nonfiction. but if i am really into the subject matter, i will take the plunge, and when it is narrative nonfiction, told with verve and humor, that makes it all the better. however, it turns out, i am more interested in foo......more

Well, that was fun. Technology is defined properly here, in its broadest sense, from the discovery of fire and the first stone knives through some of the more arcane 21st Century gadgetry, with plenty of stops along the way. The practical cooking anecdotes unsurprisingly tend to the Anglo-centric; e......more

An interesting history of all things cooking and kitchen, in the tradition of Bill Bryson's AT HOME. Wilson covers everything from taming fire to the adoption of table forks, with fascinating detours into topics like how the way we eat has affected orthodontia (we all have over-erupted incisors beca......more

*3.7, rounded up* It is refreshing to take a look at food history in terms of technology and think about wooden spoons as tech innovations. “Traditional histories of technology do not pay much attention to food... But there is just as much invention in a nutcracker as in a bullet.” Amen to that! There......more