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Paperback Food Culture in Colonial Asia: A Taste of Empire Book

ISBN: 1138785156

ISBN13: 9781138785151

Food Culture in Colonial Asia: A Taste of Empire

(Part of the Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia Series)

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Presenting a social history of colonial food practices in India, Malaysia and Singapore, this book discusses the contribution that Asian domestic servants made towards the development of this cuisine between 1858 and 1963. Domestic cookbooks, household management manuals, memoirs, diaries and travelogues are used to investigate the culinary practices in the colonial household, as well as in clubs, hill stations, hotels and restaurants.

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