Book Signing with Author Andrew Rimas and Chef Paul Turano

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.