Books written by Lizzie Collingham

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  Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors

  In the early nineteenth century, Thomas Williamson warned that only those with strong stomachs should investigate the cookroom. The sight of the cook basting the chicken with a bunch of its own feathers was likely to turn “delicate ...

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  The Biscuit: The History of a Very British Indulgence

  Even by the 1970s, when her big baking days were over, her granddaughter recalled that she 'always had a jar of homemade Anzac biscuits in the cupboard' and her veteran husband always 'had an Anzac biscuit with his morning tea or ...

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  The Taste of Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World

  Othick, 'The cocoa and chocolate industry in the 19th century', pp.81–2. 49. Clarence-Smith, Cocoa and Chocolate, 1765–1914, p.24. 50. Ibid., p.27; Othick, 'The cocoa and chocolate industry in the 19th century', p.86. 51.

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  Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food

  World War II and the Battle for Food Lizzie Collingham ... 192 ; Johnston , Japanese Food Management , p . 128 . 33 Johnston , Japanese Food Management , p . 137 . 34 Kratoska , ' The impact of the Second World War ' , p . 9 .

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  The Biscuit: The History of a Very British Indulgence

  Biscuits are as British as fish and chips or the Sunday roast and they have been for centuries. From sustenance for explorers to comfort food for a nation, here is the surprising, wide-ranging, social history of Britain through the biscuit.

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  The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food

  World War Two and the Battle for Food Lizzie Collingham. vegetables, vodka, wine, cigarettes ... Not one Russian in a thousand suspected that such abundant shops existed and, indeed, the authorities operated them discreetly, ...

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  The Hungry Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World

  In twenty meals The Hungry Empire tells the story of how the British created a global network of commerce and trade in foodstuffs that moved people and plants from one continent to another, reshaping landscapes and culinary tastes.

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  Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors

  In this fascinating volume, the first authoritative history of Indian food, Lizzie Collingham reveals that almost every well-known Indian dish is the product of a long history of invasion and the fusion of different food traditions.

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  Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors

  In this fascinating volume, the first authoritative history of Indian food, Lizzie Collingham reveals that almost every well-known Indian dish is the product of a long history of invasion and the fusion of different food traditions.