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World History

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(136,386 posts) Wed Nov 29, 2017, 03:18 PM Nov 2017

THE TASTE OF EMPIRE
How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World
By Lizzie Collingham
Illustrated. 367 pp. Basic Books. $32.

A THIRST FOR EMPIRE
How Tea Shaped the Modern World
By Erika Rappaport
Illustrated. 549 pp. Princeton University Press. $39.50.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/books/review/british-empire-tea-food-collingham-rappaport.html?