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Food history: everything you wanted to know

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The Staple Diet of the Rich

Foods go from and where they come to, and how they get reimported. A turkey's a great example, because we call it turkey. But it's because it got re imported to britain, f a turkey. Turkey did become a staple for the rich very quickly, ecause they liked it tomatoes less. And with something like curry, you see that being talked about instead of the late sixteenth century,. o 15 70, 15 eighties, eaten in the seventeenth century, 16 77. It becomes this sort of thing that's yellow. Then, of courseo, you've pasked for to the 19 sixties, and people are eating vestar cur

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