RaveThe Wall Street Journal...a tour de force of synthesis ... Ms. Collingham uses a series of meals as springboards for short chapters on their political, social and economic context and consequences, each one a little gem of condensation of reams of academic prose ... The British Empire’s days and its outsize influence on food politics, though, have been over for more than half a century. Ms. Collingham’s great achievement is to take its food history out of the realm of cozy nostalgia and show it for the potent economic and political force it was.
