Taste : the story of Britain through its cooking

Taste : the story of Britain through its cooking

Author
Colquhoun, Kate
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing;Bloomsbury USA;Bloomsbury, Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Language
English
Edition
1st U.S. ed
Year
2007
Page
460
ISBN
9781596914100,1596914106
File Type
epub
File Size
6.6 MiB

A fascinating history of how Britain learned to cook, from prehistory to the modern age.

Written with a storyteller's flair and packed with astonishing facts, Taste is a sumptuous social history of Britain told through the development of its cooking. It encompasses royal feasts and street food, the skinning of eels and the making of strawberry jelly, mixing tales of culinary stars with those of the invisible hordes cooking in kitchens across the land. Beginning before Roman times, the book journeys through the ingredients, equipment, kitchens, feasts, fads, and famines of the British; it covers the piquancy of Norman cuisine, the influx of undreamed-of spices and new foods from the East and the New World, the Tudor pumpkin pie that journeyed with the founding fathers to become America's national dish, the austerity of rationing during World War II, and the birth of convenience foods and take-away, right up to the age of Nigella Lawson, Heston Blumenthal, and Jamie Oliver. The first trade book to tell the story of British cooking―which is, of course, the history that led up to American colonial cooking as well―Taste shows that kitchens are not only places of steam, oil, and sweat, but of politics, invention, cultural exchange, commerce, conflict, and play.

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