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    A History of English Food

    Published by Random House UK Audio

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    In this major new history of English food, Clarissa Dickson Wright takes the reader on a journey from the time of the Second Crusade and the feasts of medieval kings to the cuisine - both good and bad - of the present day. She looks at the shifting influences on the national diet as new ideas and ingredients have arrived, and as immigrant communities have made their contribution to the life of the country. She evokes lost worlds of open fires and ice houses, of constant pickling and preserving, and of manchet loaves and curly-coated pigs. And she tells the stories of the chefs, cookery book writers, gourmets and gluttons who have shaped public taste, from the salad-loving Catherine or Aragon to the foodies of today. Above all, she gives a vivid sense of what it was like to sit down to the meals of previous ages, whether an eighteenth-century labourer's breakfast or a twelve-course Victorian banquet or a lunch out during the Second World War.

    Insightful and entertaining by turns, this is a magnificent tour of nearly a thousand years of English cuisine, peppered with surprises and seasoned with Clarissa Dickson Wright's characteristic wit.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House UK Audio
    Release dateApr 12, 2012
    ISBN9781448115259
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      When I think of my sister the image is always of her on a Sunday after church. I would pass a few words with the Gaffer, hand out a few alms. She would stride back across the estate in her wellies, bellowing “String ‘em up, Bertie!” Not a glimmer of irony. Completely bonkers and hugely entertaining. Dickson Wright reminds me of my sister. This is a big book and a big subject, both overshadowed by a personality so massive it has developed its own evert horizon. She claims in chapter one that homelessness in Britain today is caused by the Reformation. And she’s only getting started. She may not be entirely trustworthy, but she does get the chronology right with the older things happening first and more recent things happening later. She opens her history in the 1150s. A very sensible choice if you ask me as the history of English food prior to this can be demonstrated in the following graph:1065 – beer and red meat1067 – beer and frumentyOne thing she she really does know about is food. She knows a lot and knows how to write about it in a consistently interesting way. Particularly useful is her personal experience. When she discusses the eating of badger, or seal, or udder, she can tell you what they taste like.