The Book of Marmalade: Its Antecedents, Its History, and Its Role in the World Today, Together with a Collection of Recipes for Marmalades &

by C. Anne Wilson

Book Overview

Here is everything you need to know about marmalade. C. Anne Wilson, Britain's foremost historian of food, traces the history of this most British of preserves from its Roman and medieval antecedents, through its adoption in Tudor England, its development in Stuart and Georgian Britain, and its fortunes up to the present day. She tells how the Portuguese learned from the Moors to eat quince marmalade, and how its characteristic Arab flavorings enhanced...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312089783
• ISBN13: 9780312089788
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.