Lizzie Collingham is a Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge. This is her first book for the general reader. She is the author of a scholarly book, about the 'nabobs' of the British raj, which was published by Polity Press in 2001. She has a PHD in History from Cambridge, and at the university of Sussex won the Rose Prize for the best History finalist. Educated also in Germany and Sweden, she has been a lecturer at Warwick University and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra. She is married and lives part of the year in France, part in East Anglia.
Original and highly entertaining * Daily Mail * Fascinating and meticulously researched... layers historical fact with mouth-watering dinner table gossip of maharajah's epicurean excesses -- Meera Syal * The Times * A beautifully balanced book, melding historical fact with modern anecdotes... It's the definitive history of curry * Mail on Sunday * Marvellous and well-illustrated...based on exhaustive research and full of intriguing nuggets of information -- Chandak Sengoopta * Independent *