Borough Market: Edible Histories Epic Tales Of Everyday Ingredients

Binding: Paperback
Description: One of The Times Books of the Year 2020 _____________ Fascinating and entertaining - a pleasure to read. Claudia Roden As a nation of food - lovers we have been munching on fruit and veg drinking tea and coffee and adorning our dishes with oils and spices for generations but have you ever stopped to wonder how our most beloved foods came to be the way they are now? In this series of enlightening and highly entertaining essays award - winning food writer Mark Riddaway travels back through the centuries to tell the fascinating surprising and often downright bizarre stories of some of the everyday ingredients found at London's Borough Market. Discover how the strawberries we eat today had their roots in a clandestine trip to South America by a French spy whose surname happened to be Strawberry why three - quarters of Britain's late - 18th - century intake of tea was sold on the black market and what Sigmund Freud found so fascinating about eel genitalia. From the humble apples and onions that we've grown on these shores for centuries to more exotic ingredients like cinnamon and bananas that travel from across the world to finesse our food Borough Market: Edible Histories offers a chance to digest the charming stories behind every last morsel.
Title: Borough Market: Edible Histories Epic Tales Of Everyday Ingredients
Author(s): Riddaway Mark
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Barcode: 9781529349733
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 11/10/2022
Series: Borough Market
Category: Cookery By Ingredient