Tasting Difference: Food, Race, and Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Literature. Gitanjali G. Shahani. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. xii + 204 pp. $39.95

[...]she is able to tease out new significance from Oberon's tussles with Titania over the Indian Boy, Prospero's vanishing banquet, and Oroonoko's dreadful death. A growing body of research demonstrates that metaphors based on eating were pervasive in this period; in its focus on the culinary language associated with racial or cultural Others, Tasting Difference makes a valuable contribution to this scholarship. Tasting Difference will be read with profit by the now-substantial community of food scholars, and by all those interested in the ways in which “outside histories” in fact form an essential part of any history of the British Isles.