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Title: Hungry Empire, The: How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World
Author: COLLINGHAM LIZZIE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 15/10/2018
Imprint: VINTAGE
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
The glamorous daughter of an African chief shares a pineapple with a slave tradera Surveyors in British Columbia eat tinned Australian rabbita Diamond prospectors in Guyana prepare an iguana currya
In twenty meals The Hungry Empire tells the story of how the British created a global network of commerce and trade in foodstuffs that moved people and plants from one continent to another, re-shaping landscapes and culinary tastes. The Empire allowed Britain to harness the globe’s edible resources from cod fish and salt beef to spices, tea and sugar.
Lizzie Collingham takes us on a wide-ranging culinary journey, revealing how virtually every meal we eat still contains a taste of empire.
ISBN: 9780099586951
Pages: 400