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Hungry Empire: Food Shaped the Modern World (UK) Lizzie ClinghamHistoricalcompleted "The Hungry Empire" selects twenty delicacies as an entry point for studying the history of the British Empire. Through historical events such as how Africans taught Americans to grow rice, how the East India Company turned opium into tea, and how Americans became the best-fed people in the world, it elaborates on the historical process of economic and trade development, species migration, personnel flow, and technological innovation between Britain and its colonies from the 16th century to the —Reads8.4Score—Shelves