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Sophie Lazar of Random House Books has bought a history of the food trade by Andrew Rimas and Evan Fraser.
Empires of Food: How Civilization Rests on the Dining Table will tell the story of how each empire has built its towns, cities, ports and railways around the movement of food. Nine "food empires" will be covered, showing each culture's relationship with a particular imported or exported food, and demonstrating how controversy around government subsidies and intensive farming has been around for thousands of years. Rimas is a US journalist, and Fraser, who has also co-authored Beef: The Untold Story of how Milk, Meat and Muscle Shaped the World (forthcoming from Mainstream), teaches at Leeds University. Random House Books has UK and Commonwealth rights, acquired from Will Francis of Greene & Heaton on behalf of Anna Stein for Larry Weissman Literary.
Empires of Food will be published in hardback in 2010.