[Sca-cooks] Food and Identity in England, 1540-1640

[Terry Decker]

Within the period in question, the English raided the region bringing a 
number of new foods to England and colonized Bermuda, St. Kitts, Barbados, 
Nevis, Montego, Anguilla, Montserrat, Anguilla, Tortola and the Windward 
Islands.  The islands  would produce sugar and many of the great fortunes of 
modern England.  The time frame is such that the islands might be culinarly 
important for the new foods, but had not achieved the social importance they 
would in 18th and 19th Centuries.

Bear


The review on Amazon starts like this: "Despite leaving out many parts
of the Caribbean, the book's project is neither undermined, nor lacking
in any respect. It plays well on the dynamics between wisely chosen
general notions and the particular examples depicted so colourfully. The
writing style makes it widely accessible not only to scholars within the
field of anthropology and social sciences, but also to a wider range of
possible readers outside academia, driven by a keen interest be it even
only in the Caribbean, or in food. (Gabriela Radulescu, Allegra Laboratory)"

I am puzzled. Since when is the Caribbean part of England? Even if the
review were about the book's series, the series is " Cultures of Early
Modern Europe". What am I missing??

Alys K.

Elise Fleming