小时候上历史课向来头疼,除了只能记得些野史故事外,对于某年确立了某部法典,某年某国开始独立等等需要考试的知识,全部选择性地遗忘掉了。然而最近却因为食物的缘故而开始深读各种史书,不过内容却是与吃相关的,此外一律略过。也因此长见识地知道了,在加州大学有专门教授“食物的历史”这门学科,而与此同样冷门的还有“香料的历史”学等。其实从19世纪初的欧洲开始,越来越多关于食物历史的书籍出现在市面上。于是最近阅读的范围从太古时代的人类在意外的火灾中学会用火,到古希腊和罗马帝国为了炫耀财富举行的宴会;从漫长而黑暗的 As a child, history class has always had a headache. Apart from remembering some unofficial history stories, all the necessary examinations for establishing a certain code in a certain year, independence of a certain country in a certain year, etc., are all selectively forgotten. However, recently, however, various kinds of history books have been started because of food, but the contents are related to eating, and all of them are ignored. Therefore, I have learned so long ago that there is a special professor at the University of California, “the history of food,” a subject that is equally unpopular with the “History of Spice” and so on. In fact, beginning in Europe in the early 19th century, more and more books on food history appeared in the market. So recently the reading ranged from the Archean human being learning to use fire in accidental fires to the feasts held by ancient Greece and the Roman Empire to show off wealth;