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The Taste of Empire: How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World

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A history of the British Empire told through twenty meals eaten across the world

In The Taste of Empire, acclaimed historian Lizzie Collingham tells the tale of how the British Empire’s quest for food shaped the up to date world. Told through twenty meals over the course of 450 years, from the Some distance East to the New World, Collingham explains how Africans taught Americans the way to grow rice, how the East India Company turned opium into tea, and how Americans was the most productive-fed people on the planet. 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, are we able to fully bear in mind our capitalist economy and its role in making our up to date diets.

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