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Bastard Breadfruit and other Cheap Provisions: Early Food Science for the Welfare of the Lower Orders (2016)

Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Volume: 21
Issue: 5
Pages: 492-508
Publication date: 2016
Language: English

URI: http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15733823-00215p04

DOI: 10.1163/15733823-00215p04

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Breadfruit is best known in connection with an infamously failed project: the 1789 mutiny against the Bounty, commanded by William Bligh. However, four years later, Bligh returned to the Pacific and fulfilled his commission, delivering breadfruit and other Pacific foods to Caribbean plantations. Placing these plant transfers in the emerging sciences of food and nutrition in the eighteenth century, this essay examines the broader political project of what would much later be called ‘the welfare state,’ which motivated British officials’ interest in experimenting with novel ingredients and recipes to cheaply nourish a range of dependent populations in institutional settings. Perhaps most strikingly, their nutritional recommendations borrowed directly from agricultural practices, particularly from new methods for feeding livestock in confinement.

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