Curry A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors

Curry tells the story of an array of familiar Indian dishes and the people who invented discovered cooked and ate them.|Curry tells the story of an array of familiar Indian dishes and the people who invented discovered cooked and ate them.|Lizzie Collingham taught History at Warwick University and was a Research Fellow at Jesus College Cambridge before becoming an...|Lizzie Collingham taught History at Warwick University and was a Research Fellow at Jesus College Cambridge before becoming an independent historian. Her books include Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors and The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food. She is currently an Associate Fellow of Warwick University and the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newnham College Cambridge. She recently completed a project researching the history of the kitchens of the Indian President’s palace and regularly lectures on a gastronomic tour of Kerala. She works in a garden shed near Cambridge.|Marvellous and well-illustrated...based on exhaustive research and full of intriguing nuggets of information|A beautifully balanced book melding historical fact with modern anecdotes... It's the definitive history of curry|Fascinating and meticulously researched... layers historical fact with mouth-watering dinner table gossip of maharajah's epicurean excesses|Original and highly entertaining