Taste The Story of Britain Through Its Food

"Napoleon famously claimed that an army marches on its stomach, and the same is no less true of a nation. Few things mirror society - its progress and its upheavals - as well as the foods we eat and the ways we cook them. Written with a storyteller's flair and packed with astonishing facts and illustrations, Taste is a sumptuous social history of Britain told through the development of its cooking." "Beginning with the boiled meats and "bog butters" of pre-Roman times, it journeys through the feasts, fads, and famines of the British, examining the ingredients and equipment with which a culture was made. It covers the piquancy of Norman cuisine, the influx of undreamed-of spices and foodstuffs from the East and the New World, the austerity of rationing during World War II, and the birth of convenience foods and takeout, right up to the age of Nigella Lawson, Heston Blumenthal, and Jamie Oliver. A unique retelling of a country's history, Taste shows that kitchens are not only places of steam, oil, and sweat, but of politics, invention, cultural exchange, commerce, conflict, and play."--BOOK JACKET.Colquhoun, Kate is the author of 'Taste The Story of Britain Through Its Food', published 2007 under ISBN 9781596914100 and ISBN 1596914106.