Cooking Through the CenturiesJ.M. Dent & Sons Limited, 1931 - 242 pages A history of food and eating, using mostly secondary sources; a few recipes and a section on cooking in the time of the ancient Britons. |
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... India and the Spice Islands . We may say indeed that the desire for cheap spices determined the course of geographical dis- covery in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries , with momen- tous consequences familiar to all of us . We are ...
... India and the Spice Islands . We may say indeed that the desire for cheap spices determined the course of geographical dis- covery in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries , with momen- tous consequences familiar to all of us . We are ...
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... India Company , who received their original charter in 1600. A cargo of spices was the first result of this enterprise ; the final result was the establishment of English supremacy in India . That the Company were not slow in developing ...
... India Company , who received their original charter in 1600. A cargo of spices was the first result of this enterprise ; the final result was the establishment of English supremacy in India . That the Company were not slow in developing ...
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... India , consisting of a long though intermittent series of wars by land and sea , which extended into the nineteenth century , and ended with Waterloo in 1815 . Both in America and India our aims were attained , though the revolt of our ...
... India , consisting of a long though intermittent series of wars by land and sea , which extended into the nineteenth century , and ended with Waterloo in 1815 . Both in America and India our aims were attained , though the revolt of our ...
Contents
CHAP PAGE PREFACE ix | 1 |
FOOD AND COOKERY IN THE STONE Age | 3 |
FOOD AND COOKERY IN THE BRONZE AND EARLY IRON AGES ANCIENT BRITONS | 12 |
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