Explores the importance of the cultivation, provision, trade, and exchange of foods and beverages to technological advancement, conquest, and maritime exploration. These essays show how the sharing of food and drink forged social, religious, and community bonds, and how ceremonial feasts strengthened ties and solidified ethnoreligious identity.

Explores the importance of the cultivation, provision, trade, and exchange of foods and beverages to technological advancement, conquest, and maritime exploration. These essays show how the sharing of food and drink forged social, religious, and community bonds, and how ceremonial feasts strengthened ties and solidified ethnoreligious identity.