What happens when crops fail, fields erode, temperatures drop, or the centers of power shift and cultures descend into the darkness of poverty, famine and war? Empires of Food: Feast, Famine and the Rise and Fall of Civilization by agricultural expert Evan D. G. Fraser and Andrew Rimas (journalist and managing editor of The Improper Bostonian) is a sweeping global history of food and its trade. Chef Paul Turano of Tryst restaurant in Arlington will provide hors d'oevres- food for thought, you might say- for Andrew's discussion of the fate of people and societies for the last 12,000 years through the prism of the food they grew, hunted, traded and ate- and what the future might hold.
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