A mouthwatering journey across the centuries and continents to discover how food drove the British Empire and shaped the world
Lizzie Collingham taught History at Warwick University and was a Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge before becoming an independent historian. Her books include Curry- A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors and The Taste of War- World War II and the Battle for Food. She is currently an Associate Fellow of Warwick University and the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge. She recently completed a project researching the history of the kitchens of the Indian President's palace and regularly lectures on a gastronomic tour of Kerala. She works in a garden shed near Cambridge.
This is a fascinating and timely study of the far-flung sources of
our food supply
*Daily Mail*
After reading this you’ll never sit down to dinner without finding
a trace of empire in your meal again
*Strong Words*
A wholly pleasing book, which offers a tasty side dish to anyone
exploring the narrative history of the British Empire
*Sunday Times*
Revelatory... Original, thought-provoking and highly
entertaining
*The Times*
Dazzling… This book’s treatment of food in the empire is innovative
and exciting… A remarkable achievement
*Guardian*
Fascinating… This is a marvellously wide-ranging and readable book,
stuffed with engaging details and startling connections
*Financial Times*
Joyously delicious…In her original and supremely captivating book,
[Collingham] has cleverly recreated the fine details of some 20
meals, consumed for four and a half centuries in a variety of homes
and ships and tented encampments far from the motherland…In British
terms, she is Henry Mayhew and Mass-Observation rolled into one—a
stellar observer of the day-to-day and the mundane, a social
historian of extraordinary talent
*New York Times Book Review*
The Hungry Empire is impressively scholarly… it is also
fascinating. And although Collingham does not flinch from the
cruelties and brutalities of empire, she refrains from the
self-congratulatory finger-wagging indulged in by some modern
historians
*Daily Telegraph*
Some of the most revelatory anecdotes are the funniest… As with all
her work, Collingham has read most of what matters and has selected
from it with a lively eye… She can unwind suggestive strands of
evidence to lead readers through the labyrinth… Her brisk narrative
of the origins of IPA is exemplary
*Literary Review*
Fascinating… Collingham’s decision to organize her enormously
ambitious research around a series of intimate family meals is a
good one. Material that would otherwise be numbingly abstract is
made profoundly personal… You will certainly enjoy the journey
*Mail on Sunday*
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