The Hungry Empire How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World

'A wholly pleasing book, which offers a tasty side dish to anyone exploring the narrative history of the British Empire' Max Hastings, Sunday TimesWINNER OF THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS BOOK AWARD 2018The 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 of how the British created a global network of commerce and trade in foodstuffs that moved people and plants from one continent to another, reshaping 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
Publisher:	Random House
Imprint:	Vintage
Published date:	09 Aug 2018
DEWEY:	909.0971241
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xix, 367 , 8 unnumbered of plates
Weight:	300g
Height:	175mm
Width:	132mm
Spine width:	26mm

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