Making a Meal of It: Two Thousand Years of English Cookery

by Julia Elliott

The 2,000 year history of British cookery is celebrated in this fully illustrated book, which traces the development of the national diet from our hunter-gatherer ancestors to the Victorian era. Historical events affected our eating habits: the Roman invasion, colonisation of the New World and technological developments during the Industrial Revolution all had an impact. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the introduction ofr bottled and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 185074971X
• ISBN13: 9781850749714
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Historic England Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.2" x 8.3"