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In The Flavor of Empire, acclaimed historian Lizzie Collingham tells the storyplot of how the British Empire's search for food shaped today's world. Informed through 20 foods during the period of 450 years, from the Far East to the New World, Collingham clarifies how Africans educated People in america how to increase rice, how the East India Company transformed opium into tea, and how People in america became the best-fed people on earth. In The Flavor of Empire, Collingham masterfully shows that only by examining the history of Great Britain's global food system, from 16th-century Newfoundland fisheries to your present-day eating habits, can we grasp our capitalist current economic climate and its own role to make our modern diets.
