How Does Food Shaped The World
Kimberly Happensack 11/4/15 131
How Food shaped the World
By Kimberly Happensack
Food has come a long way. From being something necessary for survival, to something that some people do simply for enjoyment or even as a pastime. It's no secret that each and every civilization throughout history has built villages, cultures, empires and even religious views on and around food. So, what is the impact? How does it shape where we are now, and, more importantly, how will it shape the future. With today's high demands for variety, quality, rarity, and most important of all, affordability. What is the true impact on not only humanity but the environment. Can we predict how our consumption of highly processed foods will shape out future? It's always important to look back at history and determine the mistakes that were made in hopes that we don't repeat them. Herodotus ("the father of history") once wrote that “cassia, a form of cinnamon, could only be obtained by wearing a full-body suit that protected the wearer from winged creatures like bats, which screech horribly and are very fierce" (Herodotus' Histories Book 7 ). He also wrote that no one knew where the cinnamon actually grew, but that the sticks were "brought to Arabia by …show more content…
“The most effective weapon in the history of warfare” Standage writes, “It isn't a sword, a gun or even the atom bomb; it's starvation”.(Tom Standge, An edible History of humanity) The outcome of conflicts, very often depended on which side had the better food supply. It was the need for food in war time that led to the invention of canning food. In 1795, France offered a prize to anyone who could develop a better method of food preservation. The prize was went to Nicolas Appert, who experimented with a technique of putting food in airtight bottles and boiling them in water for a period of
How Food shaped the World
By Kimberly Happensack
Food has come a long way. From being something necessary for survival, to something that some people do simply for enjoyment or even as a pastime. It's no secret that each and every civilization throughout history has built villages, cultures, empires and even religious views on and around food. So, what is the impact? How does it shape where we are now, and, more importantly, how will it shape the future. With today's high demands for variety, quality, rarity, and most important of all, affordability. What is the true impact on not only humanity but the environment. Can we predict how our consumption of highly processed foods will shape out future? It's always important to look back at history and determine the mistakes that were made in hopes that we don't repeat them. Herodotus ("the father of history") once wrote that “cassia, a form of cinnamon, could only be obtained by wearing a full-body suit that protected the wearer from winged creatures like bats, which screech horribly and are very fierce" (Herodotus' Histories Book 7 ). He also wrote that no one knew where the cinnamon actually grew, but that the sticks were "brought to Arabia by …show more content…
“The most effective weapon in the history of warfare” Standage writes, “It isn't a sword, a gun or even the atom bomb; it's starvation”.(Tom Standge, An edible History of humanity) The outcome of conflicts, very often depended on which side had the better food supply. It was the need for food in war time that led to the invention of canning food. In 1795, France offered a prize to anyone who could develop a better method of food preservation. The prize was went to Nicolas Appert, who experimented with a technique of putting food in airtight bottles and boiling them in water for a period of