GLS 102: Plat du Jour: Why we eat what we eat
Some bookmarks for your browsing pleasure

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Globalization
A quick guide (UPenn)
Defining Globalization (GPF)
Globalization websites
Report on Globalisation (Guardian)
Economy guide: Globalisation
Globalisation Guide
Unnecessary trade?
Logistical nightmare? (Guardian)
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History: Evolutionary and Human History
Introduction to Evolution (UCBerkeley)
History of Horticulture (lectures) Changes in diet over time and space Food Timeline
The Origins of Agriculture and Crop Domestication Geography as power (Diamond) Food Guide for War Service at Home (US) 1918 Food & Spices:Time Line
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Modern Trade, Agriculture

WTO, 6th conference, 2006
Tropical Commodities and their markets Women & the Economy: Globalization & Food Khat in uk
Free trade leaves world food in grip of global giants Geographic Indications and International Trade The TED Case Studies: An Online Journal Fish (and other food) trade in Senegal
Trades Statistics


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Spices
For Spice and Empire (AsiaWeek) Looking back in time and space Plants & people (Kew Gardens) Spices: Tropical plants with aromatic fruits or barks
Gold-digging ants, spices and other fantastic tales
How did Portugal lose the spice race? Cardamom
Present: Saudi Arabia, Guatemala
Past: Sumeria, 3000 BC
Ginger, NE India (ginger): Trade, taxes, tribals, 2006, since 1998
Arabs and the seaArab trade, Yemen The History of Spices (McCormick) Salem pepper trade Star Anise and Tamiflu
Jews and the spice trade The world of spices (The American Spice Trade Assn.) Oregano in America
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Tea, Coffee
History of Tea How Ch'a Became Tea
Coffee demand may kill endangered animals
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Salt
Salt in history Salt industry in the Bahamas The poetics of salt (Morton, CUP) Radioactive wastes, salt mines
History of salt American Revolutionary Wars
Rock salt mining
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Sugar
Sugar cane - History
Sugar making and history Sugarcane names Cotton, sugar, bananas (WTO today)
Arabs, sugar, almonds
1628 across the continent

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Animals
Farming, from Ancient to Zoo
Goats: Two domestications, Initial domestication, Mesopotamian sculpture
Domesticating animals Pigs
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Eating locally
Renewing America's Food Traditions First Peoples of Canada and Plants matthew herbert's plat du jour challenge Dinner 'travels globe to table'
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Anatomy of a dish
History and Legends of Favorite Foods (USA)
Balti chicken tikka masala Pan-fried halibut, Devonshire crabmeat and wilted warrigals Millet noodles, 4,000 ya
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R. Geeta
Last modified January 18, 2007