Contents

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION Ingredients of the Past

PART I

THE OF

1 The Invention of Farming

2 The Roots of Modernity

PART II

FOOD AND

3 Food, Wealth, and Power

4 Follow the Food

PART III

GLOBAL OF

5 Splinters of Paradise

6 Seeds of Empire

PART IV

AND

7 New World, New Foods

8 The Steam Engine and the Potato

PART V

FOOD AS A

9 The Fuel of War

10 Food Fight

PART VI

AND

11 Feeding the World

12 Paradoxes of Plenty

EPILOGUE Ingredients of the Future

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES

SOURCES

INDEX