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Wed Nov 29, 2017, 04:18 PM Nov 2017

The Sun Never Set on the British Empire, or Its Food.

THE TASTE OF EMPIRE
How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World
By Lizzie Collingham
Illustrated. 367 pp. Basic Books. $32.

A THIRST FOR EMPIRE
How Tea Shaped the Modern World
By Erika Rappaport
Illustrated. 549 pp. Princeton University Press. $39.50.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/books/review/british-empire-tea-food-collingham-rappaport.html?

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