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Book of the Week The Hungry Empire Episodes

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  1. Feeding a Wartime Empire

    5/5 North Africa, 1941. Wartime strictures reveal the brutal reality behind feeding an empire.

  2. Opium and the East India Company

    4/5 In 19th-century India, British companies are profiting from arms-length drug trading.

  3. Dining at Sea

    3/5 As the Empire expands the colonial trade in ships' provisions races to keep up.

  4. Salt Beef Succotash in New England

    2/5 The Puritan settlers struggle to recreate the ideal English diet in new surroundings.

  5. Salt Cod on the Mary Rose

    1/5 Historian Lizzie Collingham explains how salt cod helped to create the British Empire.