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Lizzie Collingham

Teoksen Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors tekijä

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Lizzie Collingham taught history at the University of Warwick before becoming a Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge.
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A detailed and interesting if unstructured history of the biscuit. Too much of the book is focused on pre-industrial biscuits and their tradition in Europe and the Middle-east and not enough on the modern biscuit. The structure is also particularly unfocused. The author frequently ranges over wildly different eras in each chapter with many, many irrelevant anecdotes. The recipes are also a strange addition to a history book.
 
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BriainC | 1 muu arvostelu | Feb 14, 2024 |
Unexpectedly great! It artfully manages to weave all those popular "one thing that influenced the world" books in a coherent, restrained yet utterly enlightening narrative. And since it deals with a truly global and ever reaching empire it could be called the best take on the popular world food history so far. I absolutely didn't count on such a masterful execution! Sheer brilliance!
 
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Den85 | 5 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 3, 2024 |
A thoroughly researched examination of how Empire improves efficiency of getting goods to different places around the world but also how it fucks over nutritional availability to its colonies. My only quibble is Collingham's take on British companies trading Indian opium to China- she likens it to the tea that working class Brits used as an end-of-the-day tipple, but opium-derived drugs are still considered highly addictive today over anything from C. sinensis... Regardless, this is chock-full of citations on how Britain impacted global foodways.… (lisätietoja)
 
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Daumari | 5 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Dec 28, 2023 |
An enjoyable look at a highly nuanced cuisine. Being one of the guilty people who goes into every Indian restaurant expecting to find and order my favorite dish (paneer makhani 4ever!), this book was a wakeup call. The most fascinating part was when the British Empire took hold because it showed how an entirely new cuisine (Anglo-Indian) was formed by British prejudices, as well as thoughtfully discussing what happened when Hindu purity rules around eating and drinking came up against British colonial social norms. Also quite interesting to me was the spread of Indian and Anglo-Indian food into Great Britain and America, since it spoke directly to my own experiences eating these cuisines.

Not sure that I'll be making any of the delicious-sounding recipes found at the end of each chapter because, as the author notes throughout the book, real Indian cooking is extremely complex. Every recipe needing a cupboard-full of ingredients to chop and grind and marinate is too involved for my style of cooking. Label me a happy eater, leaving the cookery to the experts.
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blueskygreentrees | 3 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jul 30, 2023 |

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