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Title: The Taste of Empire

Subtitle: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World

Author: Lizzie Collingham

Narrator: Jennifer M. Dixon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-03-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

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 20 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 16th-century Newfoundland fisheries to our present-day eating habits, can we fully understand our capitalist economy and its role in making our modern diets.

Critic Reviews:

"This is a wholly pleasing book, which offers a tasty side dish to anyone exploring the narrative history of the British Empire." (Max Hastings, Sunday Times [UK])

Members Reviews:

So much to learn about things I've never stopped to consider. Buy it.

Not only that, it was listed on the reading lists I respect (both of them) as the best nonfiction book of the year. I would concur.

excellent bok

full of more history than earlier books I have read

Five Stars

An amazing book!

Five Stars

very interesting

A geographical correction

Fray Bentos is not in Argentina. It is in Uruguay. The meat packing plant that once made the famous corned beef is now a nice industrial museum.