![]() Also, the book is packed full of illustration, and not the usual portraits of people no one ever saw. ![]() I especially liked how he explained the figures with context rather than listing a bunch of meaningless numbers. He spins a good yarn but also includes relevant figures and great anecdotes. It almost feels as if someone is reading it aloud and telling a story while explaining something important. The author is an academic, but he has a style (at least in this book) that is readable and engaging for a wide audience. The author makes a powerful and persuasive case both for the usefulness of food as a way to understand people's relationships with their worlds generally and, more important, how much and deeply the empire affected peoples lives in Britain. Instead it narrates and argues for the importance of food in how people understood the empire and how the empire affected the daily lives of the people who stayed in Britain. It is not really food history in that it is not a biography of coffee. ![]() ![]() The book explores how food, society and empire interacted in Britain during the 18th century. There are no reviews of this book yet, so I am taking a stab at it. ![]()
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