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HIST 298 - Tasting Empire: A History of Trading, Cooking, and Eating


“Keep Curry British!” So read a London newspaper’s headline that spoofed an ultranationalist party slogan. “Tasting Empire” explains how the British Empire, from medieval to modern times, shaped diets, pantries, and medicinal practices on a global scale and shaped how people in Britain and elsewhere understood who they were.

Credits 1