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.
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Cynthia Clampitt is a food historian and travel writer, and the author of Waltzing Australia.
Titel
Midwest Maize
Untertitel
How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland
Autor
EAN
9780252096877
ISBN
978-0-252-09687-7
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
28.02.2015
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
2.83 MB
Anzahl Seiten
304
Jahr
2015
Untertitel
Englisch
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