Taste : the story of Britain through its cooking
Chronicles the social history of Britain through the evolution of its food, tracing the development of aristocratic tastes and street food across the country from pre-Roman times to the present day
Print Book, English, 2007
1st U.S. ed View all formats and editions
Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, New York, 2007
History
xvi, 460 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
9781596914100, 1596914106
153578532
Prologue: The staff of life
Prehistory: The Kittiwake at Danebury
Roman Britain: Conspicuous culinary consumption
Liquamen
Raider centuries: An art in peril
Medieval Britain: 'Newe conceyts'
feasts and fasts
Hospitality
Pastry
Tudors: strange vegetables, new tastes
'sugar never marred sawce'
English huswife
Blessed puddings
Stuarts: Mad master cooks
Commonwealth and protectorate: Unhappy times
Restoration: A la mode
Chefs and sweethearts
Ice
William and Mary, Anne, and the Hanoverians: Human nature
Good gravy and hooped petticoats
Brave stomachs
Drunkenness
Taste
Long Regency: Mad for innovation
A la russe
Painting the lamb, roasting the mutton
Victorians: Great laboratory
Poverty's larder
Flight to gentility, or living for appearances
Twentieth century: Raging inequalities and the taste of war
Fleeting fortunes and discontented domestics
Waste food and help the Hun!
Learning to walk, loving to run
'What I myself have learned ... '
'Cuisine poseur'