Cuisine and empire: cooking in world history

Mastering grain cookery, 2,000-300 B.C.E.

The barley-wheat sacrificial cuisines of the ancient empires, 500 B.C.E.-400 C.E

Buddhism transforms the cuisines of south and east Asia, 260 B.C.E.-800 C.E.

Islam transforms the cuisines of central and west Asia, 800-1650 C.E.

Christianity transforms the cuisines of Europe and the Americas, 100-1650 C.E.

Prelude to modern cuisines: Northern Europe, 1650-1800

Modern cuisines: the expansion of middling cuisines, 1810-1920

Modern cuisines: the globalization of middling cuisines, 1920-2000.