The Taste of Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World by Lizzie Collingham
The Taste of Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World
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Lizzie Collingham
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The Taste of Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World

Lizzie Collingham

324 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction food and drink history informative slow-paced
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The glamorous daughter of an African chief shares a pineapple with a slave trader… Surveyors in British Columbia eat tinned Australian rabbit… Diamond prospectors in Guyana prepare an iguana curry…In twenty meals The Hungry Empire tells the story ...

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