The Hungry Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World by Lizzie Collingham

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

Lizzie Collingham

367 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction food and drink history informative slow-paced
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"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...

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