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Borough Market: Edible Histories - Epic tales of everyday ingredients (Paperback)
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Borough Market: Edible Histories - Epic tales of everyday ingredients (Paperback)
Series: Borough Market
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List price R340
Loot Price R277
Discovery Miles 2 770
You Save R63 (19%)
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One of The Times Books of the Year 2020 Shortlisted for The Fortnum
& Mason Food & Drink Awards 2021, Debut Food Book
_____________ 'Fascinating and entertaining - a pleasure to read.'
Claudia Roden Have you ever stopped to wonder how our most beloved
foods came to be the way they are now? 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 how
did this happen? What is the history of our favourite foodstuffs?
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.
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