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A History of English Food written by Clarissa Dickson Wright performed by Clarissa Dickson Wright on MP3 Player (Unabridged)

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ISBN:  9781448115266
Genre - Main:  Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific:  History
Duration:  810 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  Clarissa Dickson Wright
Narrator 1:  Clarissa Dickson Wright
Rarity:  Extremely Rare

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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 of 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 18th-century labourer's breakfast or a 12-course Victorian banquet or a lunch out during the Second World War.

Insightful and entertaining by turns, this is a magnificent tour of nearly 1,000 years of English cuisine, peppered with surprises and seasoned with Clarissa Dickson Wright's characteristic wit.

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