A sumptuously presented personal history of English food, from medieval times to the present day, by a beloved food writer of the" Two Fat Ladies"

In amajor 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 arrived, and as immigrant communities made their contribution to the life of the country. She evokes lost worlds of open fires and ice houses, of...