The Hungry Empire by Lizzie Collingham

A wholly pleasing book which offers a tasty side dish to anyone exploring the narrative history of the British Empire Max Hastings Sunday Times WINNER OF THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS BOOK AWARD 2018 The 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 com Paperback softback