# Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History

By Simon Hørup Eskildsen · 2020-01-01 · Book by Rachel Laudan, rated 2/5 · https://sirupsen.com/books/cuisine-and-empire

This was way more academic than I anticipated, so I ended up mostly skimming before finally putting it down. What intrigued me to pick this up was this endlessly fascinating image mapping the Mongol expansion on the spread of the dumpling:

![](/images/dumplings.png)

Unfortunately, that's a lonely peak in this book.