Kate’s Reviews > The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean > Status Update

American Bake-Off watchers have pointed out this apparently British baking quirk to me recently :D "Since the late middle ages the English had been obsessed with currants, raisins and sultanas, and competition with the Venetians for access....caused many ugly accidents. English merchants intruded themselves so successfully into the Ionian isles that they were soon carrying off the greater part of its dried fruit."