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Food: The Secret Sauce of History
with Sandra Garson
Because human beings must eat to survive, securing food has been our major preoccupation and thus the root of all you read in history books. Britain sabotaged China with the Opium Wars to get tea; Maine was 'discovered' because southern European Catholics needed to eat fish; Rome conquered Spain to get olive oil just as Hitler invaded Ukraine to get wheat and Americans' obsession with that yellow fruit made troubled banana republics. We'll look at the seemingly ordinary items in the pantry - salt, potatoes, black pepper, pasta - and discover how they actually changed the world.
This is a shared class with South Coast Senior College.
Will run