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Food Culture in Colonial Asia

2011-05-03 Cooking
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Release : 2011-05-03
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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.

A Taste of Empire

2017 Drama
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Release : 2017
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 609/5 ( reviews)

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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.

The Taste of Empire

2017-10-03 History
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Release : 2017-10-03
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Taste of Empire by : Lizzie Collingham

Download or read book The Taste of Empire written by Lizzie Collingham. This book was released on 2017-10-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the British Empire told through twenty meals eaten around the world 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 twenty 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 sixteenth-century Newfoundland fisheries to our present-day eating habits, can we fully understand our capitalist economy and its role in making our modern diets.

A Taste for Empire and Glory

2020-09-10 History
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Release : 2020-09-10
Genre : History
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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.

Cuisine and Empire

2015-04-03 Cooking
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Release : 2015-04-03
Genre : Cooking
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Book Synopsis Cuisine and Empire by : Rachel Laudan

Download or read book Cuisine and Empire written by Rachel Laudan. This book was released on 2015-04-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world’s great cuisines—from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present—in this superbly researched book. Probing beneath the apparent confusion of dozens of cuisines to reveal the underlying simplicity of the culinary family tree, she shows how periodic seismic shifts in “culinary philosophy”—beliefs about health, the economy, politics, society and the gods—prompted the construction of new cuisines, a handful of which, chosen as the cuisines of empires, came to dominate the globe. Cuisine and Empire shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers. Laudan’s innovative narrative treats cuisine, like language, clothing, or architecture, as something constructed by humans. By emphasizing how cooking turns farm products into food and by taking the globe rather than the nation as the stage, she challenges the agrarian, romantic, and nationalistic myths that underlie the contemporary food movement.

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