![]() ![]() The food’s first transformative role was the basis for the formation of entire civilizations. As Tom Standage explains, since the time of prehistory to present, the facts surrounding these changes form a documentary that encompasses the entire human history. Standage explains that throughout history, food has not only provided sustenance but has also acted as the catalyst of societal organization, social change, economic expansion, military conflict, geopolitical competition and industrial development. ![]() The book approaches history in a different way altogether: as a sequence of changes caused, influenced or enabled by food. In the text, An Edible History of Humanity, Tom Standage provides his take on how the past was so deeply affected by food throughout the generations. (Ed) New York: Walker and Company, 2010, Print. A Book Report on Tom Standage’s an Edible History of HumanityĪ Book Report on Tom Standage’s An Edible History of Humanity Standage, Tom. ![]()
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