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Author : Jovanni Sy
Release : 2017
Genre : Drama
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 609/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Taste of Empire by : Jovanni Sy
Download or read book A Taste of Empire written by Jovanni Sy. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Taste of Empire is a wacky, one-chef, culinary exploration of global food domination and the conquest of our appetites.
Author : Cecilia Leong-Salobir
Release : 2011-05-03
Genre : Cooking
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Book Rating : 543/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Food Culture in Colonial Asia by : Cecilia Leong-Salobir
Download or read book Food Culture in Colonial Asia written by Cecilia Leong-Salobir. This book was released on 2011-05-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a social history of colonial food practices in India, Malaysia and Singapore, this book discusses the contribution that Asian domestic servants made towards the development of this cuisine between 1858 and 1963. Domestic cookbooks, household management manuals, memoirs, diaries and travelogues are used to investigate the culinary practices in the colonial household, as well as in clubs, hill stations, hotels and restaurants. Challenging accepted ideas about colonial cuisine, the book argues that a distinctive cuisine emerged as a result of negotiation and collaboration between the expatriate British and local people, and included dishes such as curries, mulligatawny, kedgeree, country captain and pish pash. The cuisine evolved over time, with the indigenous servants preparing both local and European foods. The book highlights both the role and representation of domestic servants in the colonies. It is an important contribution for students and scholars of food history and colonial history, as well as Asian Studies.
Author : Philip Lawson
Release : 2020-09-10
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 411/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Taste for Empire and Glory by : Philip Lawson
Download or read book A Taste for Empire and Glory written by Philip Lawson. This book was released on 2020-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decade and a half before his untimely death at 46, Philip Lawson had already achieved more than many historians. This posthumously published collection brings together his work on the British overseas expansion during the ’long’ 18th century and includes two previously unpublished essays. The first articles deal with general issues of approach and interpretation, with Canada and the thirteen colonies, and with India and the empire of tea. The final essays illustrate Anglo-Indian relations and the tea trade, showing the relationship between the establishment of Indian tea plantations, the growth of the tea trade, and the political and cultural impact of tea drinking on the British and their colonists. Taken together these studies make an outstanding contribution to the field, important to anyone interested in the history of Hanoverian Britain as an imperial power.
Author : Mark Padoongpatt
Release : 2017-09-26
Genre : Cooking
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 738/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Flavors of Empire by : Mark Padoongpatt
Download or read book Flavors of Empire written by Mark Padoongpatt. This book was released on 2017-09-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One night in Bangkok" : food and the everyday life of empire -- "Chasing the yum" : food procurement and early Thai Los Angeles -- Too hot to handle? restaurants and Thai American identity -- "More than a place of worship" : food festivals and Thai American suburban culture -- Thailand's "77th province" : culinary tourism in Thai Town
Author : Andrew Dalby
Release : 2019-06-18
Genre : Cooking
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 365/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Tastes of Byzantium by : Andrew Dalby
Download or read book Tastes of Byzantium written by Andrew Dalby. This book was released on 2019-06-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, the food and culinary delights of the Byzantine empire - centred on Constantinople - have captivated the west, although it appeared that very little information had been passed down to us. Andrew Dalby's "Tastes of Byzantium" now reveals in astonishing detail, for the first time, what was eaten in the court of the Eastern Roman Empire - and how it was cooked. Fusing the spices of the Romans with the seafood and simple local food of the Aegean and Greek world, the cuisine of the Byzantines was unique and a precursor to much of the food of modern Turkey and Greece. Bringing this vanished cuisine to life in vivid and sensual detail, Dalby describes the sights and smells of Constantinople and its marketplaces, relates travellers' tales and paints a comprehensive picture of the recipes and customs of the empire and their relationship to health and the seasons, love and medicine. For food-lovers and historians alike, "Tastes of Byzantium" is both essential and riveting - an extraordinary illumination of everyday life in the Byzantine world.
