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The Quest for Food Harald Brussow

The Quest for Food By Harald Brussow

The Quest for Food by Harald Brussow


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This book explores the links between food and human cultural and physical evolution. This book catalyzes discussion between scientists working on one side in food science and on the other side in biological and biomedical research.

The Quest for Food Summary

The Quest for Food: A Natural History of Eating by Harald Brussow

This book explores the links between food and human cultural and physical evolution. Each chapter begins by summarizing the basic knowledge in the field, discusses recent research results, and confirms or challenges established concepts, inviting new insight and provoking new questions. This book catalyzes discussion between scientists working on one side in food science and on the other side in biological and biomedical research.

The Quest for Food Reviews

From the reviews:

"Brussow has written an interesting collection of scientific essays about the biological and evolutionary history of eating. The Quest for Food is organized in broad chapters with numerous subchapters. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." (S. C. Hardesty, CHOICE, Vol. v4 (3), November, 2007)

About Harald Brussow

Harald Brussow is a Senior Research Scientist in Nestle Research Centre's Nutrition and Health Department in Lausanne,Switzerland. He received his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry at Martinsried,Germany and served on the editorial board of two journals published by the American Society for Microbiology.

Table of Contents

A Nutritional Conditio Humana.- Some Aspects of Nutritional Biochemistry.- Bioenergetics.- The Evolution of Eating Systems.- The Ecology of Eating Systems.- Eating Cultures.- We as Food and Feeders.- An Agro(-Eco)nomical Outlook: Feeding the Billions.

Additional information

NPB9780387303345
9780387303345
0387303340
The Quest for Food: A Natural History of Eating by Harald Brussow
New
Hardback
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
2007-05-11
866
N/A
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