The Taste of Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780465056668)

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.

Author: Lizzie Collingham
ISBN-10: 0465056660
ISBN-13: 9780465056668
Publisher: Basic Books
Language: English
Published: 10/03/2017
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 10/01/2017 pg. 22
Library Journal 10/15/2017
Choice 05/01/2018