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Article: A Culinary History of the British in India.(Brief Article)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 1993
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David Burton. Faber. 1993. 214.99. 0 571 14389 X.
The Rai at Table presents an alarming collection of some 60 recipes, eaten at the oddest times in tune with the changing fashions of 19th century England rather than the climate. Given the speed of food decay, one can only be thankful that tinned foods had arrived in time for tiffin in the 1830s.
Memsahibs continue to get a bad press despite the high efforts of writer Flora Steele in the 1860s. Apart from running a family, designing public buildings and local education, she was rightly called the Mrs. Beeton of India. But many were blamed for rejecting local foods in favour of a curious cuisine of ...