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The Taste of Empire
The Taste of Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World | Lizzie Collingham
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A history of the British Empire told through twenty meals eaten around the world In The Taste of Empire, acclaimed historian Lizzie Collingham tells the story of how the British Empire's quest for food shaped the modern world. Told through twenty meals over the course of 450 years, from the Far East to the New World, Collingham explains how Africans taught Americans how to grow rice, how the East India Company turned opium into tea, and how Americans became the best-fed people in the world. In The Taste of Empire, Collingham masterfully shows that only by examining the history of Great Britain's global food system, from sixteenth-century Newfoundland fisheries to our present-day eating habits, can we fully understand our capitalist economy and its role in making our modern diets.
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tegulizards
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holy shit but this was a good, good book. highly recommend!

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tegulizards
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just one of the many no-punches-pulled passages in this book. definitely worth it.

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tegulizards
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this is the book i‘m reading for fun while working on my dissertation. despite its rigor, it‘s very easy to read and i‘m getting through it quickly!

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leesy1
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Brief sections on how food altered history and how history altered food, as related to the British Empire chronologically from Tudor times to the early twentieth century. Interesting, readable, thought provoking.