An Edible History Of Humanity Summary

Our history is defined by human beings who live, died and will live on this planet. We are living, and with everything that lives there is a condition to our life; we must have food. Food, something that some may take for granted today, has always been with us every step our evolution and it is with this mutual relationship that all of human history can be told by our sustenance. It is seen in our agriculture from the miniscule stalks of maize of the Americas to artificial monsters of todays “corn” fields, our necessity of it whether it be sold or eaten, and most importantly our hand in the shaping of our own environment. Amber waves of grain. Our amber waves of grain, precisely chosen generation after generation to become the best possibly suited to feed its planters and probably your long deceased ancestors, were not always as beautifully amber as you remember. Today’s agriculture developed and changed from technology and time

In An Edible History of Humanity, Tom Standage reveals that massive change in population is followed by advances in farming techniques. The Introduction of potatoes and corn in Europe helps provide workers to the industrial revolution, and even the Green Revolution of today where our world has reached seven billion humans thanks to advances in artificial farming techniques have literally fed every human being and domestic animal that has created the world you live in today, and also the interactions those living people have made. Where would we be if Columbus had not searched for another route to Asia and accidently discovered the Americas? Our need for food to profit off of our stave our hunger can tell our human story. It was the search for a route to Asia for a valuable food, spice, which began the colonization of new continent and the access to new foods that would change the world. “The rich history of the spice trade reminds us that for centuries,