📗 Libro en inglés STUFFED

Delicious Wonderful Guardian Fascinating Full of incident and food for thought Mail on Sunday Delightful Vogler offers up a feast of tales about popular British foods Financial Times A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A WATERSTONES BEST FOOD & DRINK BOOK OF 2023 The fascinating history of the people the ideas and the dishes that have fed and starved the nation by the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Scoff In times of plenty we stuff ourselves When the food runs out we re stuffed too How have people in the British Isles shared the riches from our fields dairies kitchens and seas as well as those from around the world And when the cupboard is bare who steps up to the plate to feed the nation s hungry children soldiers at war or families in crisis Stuffed tells the stories of the food and drink at the centre of social upheavals from prehistory to the present the medieval inns boosted by the plague the Enclosures that finished off the celebratory roast goose the Victorian chemist searching for unadulterated mustard the post war supermarkets luring customers with strawberries Drawing on cookbooks literature and social records Pen Vogler reveals how these turning points have led to today s extremes of plenty and want roast b