

You might also like the interview with Chris Otter on Jeremy Cherfas, Eat This Podcast, 7 June 2021: To Learn Moreīroomfield, Andrea, ‘ Rushing Dinner to the Table: The “Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine” and Industrialization’s Effects on Middle-Class Food and Cooking, 1852-1860’, Victorian Periodicals Review 41:2 (2008).*Ĭollingham, Lizzie, The Hungry Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World (2017).įreidberg, Susanne, ‘ Moral Economies and the Cold Chain’, Historical Research88:239 (2015). Sharma, Jayeeta, 'Food and Empire', Oxford Handbooks of Food History, ed. Petrick, Gabriella, 'Industrial Food', Oxford Handbook of Food History, ed. Otter, Chris, Diet for a Large Planet: Industrial Britain, Food Systems, and World Ecology, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, 2020), Introduction and chapter 1.* O’Connor, Kaori, ‘The King’s Christmas Pudding: Globalization, Recipes, and the Commodities of Empire’, Journal of Global History 4 (2009).


Goody, Jack, ‘Industrial Food: Towards the Development of a World Cuisine’, Cooking, Cuisine and Class(Cambridge, 1982). *Ĭollingham, Lizzie, Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors (Oxford, 2007), esp.

Please read two pieces, in addition to researching your chosen brand.īickham, Troy, ‘Eating the Empire: Intersections of Food, Cookery and Imperialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain’, Past and Present198 (2008), 71-109. What role has empire played in shaping the British diet? Can you use the history of your brand to illustrate this process? Readings How does the history of this brand illustrate the development of industrial food? Questions to Consider While Reading Please come to the seminar having researched the origins of ONE well-known British brand dating back at least 70 years.
