The Raj at Table: A Culinary History of the British in India

By David Burton

Book Overview

While the British were in India they developed a curious cuisine all of their own. Anglo-Indian cooking was at its best when it achieved a kind of cultural balance; mulligatawny, kedgeree and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 057114389X
• ISBN13: 9780571143894
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Faber & Faber, Incorporated
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Fascinating, Hilarious Regional History of British Cuisine

This book is chock-a-block with interesting insights and hilarious anecdotes set against a scrupulously researched tissue of culinary-cum-cultural history. I could not put it down, and there were moments when I laughed at loud! To read and understand *The Raj at Table* is to taste the cross-cultural confluences that continue to temper our sense of culinary style today