Food : A History

286pp plus sections of plate illustrations. Black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. Coloured endpapers. Indexed. Hint of page aging. In its original dust jacket (very lightly bumped at edges). Written by a fine storyteller, this is a history of mankind meeting its world on its plates. Every ingredient of our past and present can be read in recipes – our identity and relationships told through the food we have cooked and eaten. A cultural as well as a culinary history.