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Overview of the history of Indian food. Obviously this is a massive subject and this book really just makes you feel how massive it is, with the vast regional, religious and cultural differences and the effects of successive waves of conquest, colonisation and cultural exchange starting with the Moghuls. Lots on the development of Anglo-Indian food, and on how mostly Bengali people developed what Brits now think of as 'curry'. I was staggered to learn that tea wasn't a big Indian drink till the late 19th century when it got a huge marketing push from the British-owned Indian Tea company to develop a home market. Wtf, talk about coals to Newcastle.