Ihmiskunnan syötävä historia

This book covers the basics of how food has changed the history of humanity, beginning from the development of agriculture. How canned food changed the way wars were fought, how the spice trade created commercial empires, how the humans developed the maize and used it to build large empires and so on.

The book is fairly light reading and well-written. It doesn't delve very deep, but is good entertainment.