Informazioni generali

Nome legale: Collingham, Elizabeth M.
Altri nomi: Collingham, Lizzie
Data di nascita: 1947
Sesso: female
Nazionalità: UK
Istruzione: University of Sussex (BA | history, 1991)
University of York (MA | Women's Studies, 1992)
University of Cambridge (Ph.D. | History, 1997)
Attività lavorative: historian
Organizzazioni: University of Warwick

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Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors di Lizzie Collingham

A history of Indian cuisine relating to imported foods and recipes of other cultures.

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sfj2 | 4 altre recensioni | May 15, 2024 |

The Biscuit: The History of a Very British Indulgence di Lizzie Collingham

A detailed and interesting if unstructured history of the biscuit. Too much of the book is focused on pre-industrial biscuits and their tradition in Europe and the Middle-east and not enough on the modern biscuit. The structure is also particularly unfocused. The author frequently ranges over wildly different eras in each chapter with many, many irrelevant anecdotes. The recipes are also a strange addition to a history book.

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BriainC | 1 altra recensione | Feb 14, 2024 |

The Hungry Empire: How Britain’s Quest for Food… di Lizzie Collingham

Unexpectedly great! It artfully manages to weave all those popular "one thing that influenced the world" books in a coherent, restrained yet utterly enlightening narrative. And since it deals with a truly global and ever reaching empire it could be called the best take on the popular world food history so far. I absolutely didn't count on such a masterful execution! Sheer brilliance!

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Den85 | 5 altre recensioni | Jan 3, 2024 |

The Taste of Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food… di Lizzie Collingham

A thoroughly researched examination of how Empire improves efficiency of getting goods to different places around the world but also how it fucks over nutritional availability to its colonies. My only quibble is Collingham's take on British companies trading Indian opium to China- she likens it to the tea that working class Brits used as an end-of-the-day tipple, but opium-derived drugs are still considered highly addictive today over anything from C. sinensis... Regardless, this is chock-full of citations on how Britain impacted global foodways.… (altro)

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Daumari | 5 altre recensioni | Dec 28, 2023 |

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