influence on history can similarly be likened to an invisible fork that has, at several crucial points in history, prodded humanity and altered its destiny, even though people were generally unaware of its influence at the time. Many food choices made in the past turn out to have had far-reaching consequences, and toFile Size: 2MB. · Tom Standage is business affairs editor at The Economist and an author of five history books. His latest, entitled 'An Edible History of Humanity', looks at. · An Edible History of Humanity is an account of how food has helped to shape and transform societies around the world, from the emergence of farming in China by 7, BCE to today's use of sugar cane and corn to make ethanol. Food has been a kind of technology, a tool that has changed the course of human progress.5/5.
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