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Food and fate

机译:食物与命运

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IN 1879 a group of British soldiers at the battle of Rorke's Drift in South Africa struggled to defend themselves against thousands of Zulu warriors. For shelter they threw up an improvised barricade. And the material they chose? Bricks of biscuit tins made by Carr's of Carlisle. It is an image that nicely sums up "The Taste of Empire", in which Lizzie Collingham, a British historian of curry and of the Raj, argues that food was not an adjunct to Britain's imperial might but fundamental to it. Usually it is assumed that Britain's empire appeared and then Britain's food trade-that vast tonnage of tea, flour, sugar, bully beef and Crosse & Blackwell pickle that swept across the seven seas-appeared to feed it. Ms Collingham turns that idea neatly on its head. It was not so much the empire that began the trade, but trade that began the empire.
机译:1879年,一群英军在南非的罗克(Rorke)漂流战中奋力保卫自己,以对抗数千名祖鲁族战士。为了躲避,他们扔了一个临时的路障。他们选择的材料是什么?卡莱尔卡尔制做的饼干罐砖。这幅图像很好地概括了“帝国的味道”,其中英国咖喱和拉吉王朝的历史学家里齐·科林厄姆(Lizzie Collingham)认为,食物不是英国帝国势力的附属品,而是它的基础。通常假设英国帝国出现了,然后是英国的食品贸易-席卷了七个海洋的大量吨的茶,面粉,糖,霸王牛肉和克罗斯和布莱克威尔泡菜出现了。科林汉姆女士巧妙地将这个想法变成现实。开始贸易的不是帝国,而是开始帝国的贸易。

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    《The economist》 |2017年第9063期|76-77|共2页
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