Contents

• The edible foundations of civilization
• The invention of farming
• The roots of modernity
• Food and social structure
• Food, wealth and power
• Follow the food
• Global highways of food
• Splinters of paradise
• Seeds of empire
• Food, energy and industrialisation
• New world, new foods
• The steam engine and the potato
• Food as a weapon
• The fuel of war
• Food fight
• Food, population, and development
• Feeding the world
• Paradoxes of plenty