British Food

Written in a style similar to that of Nigel Slater’s multi-award-winning food memoir ‘Toast’, this is a celebration of the glory, humour, eccentricities and embarrassments that are The British at Table. The British have a relationship with their food that is unlike that of any other...

In The Taste of Empire, acclaimed historian Lizzie Collingham tells the story of how the British Empire's quest for food shaped the modern world. Told through 20 meals over the course of 450 years, from the Far East to the New World, Collingham explains how Africans taught Americans how to grow rice, how the East India Company turned opium into tea, and how Americans became the best-fed people in the world.

A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2017 One of NPR Fresh Air's "Books to Close Out a Chaotic 2017" NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2017’s Great Reads “How lucky for us readers that Shapiro has been listening so perceptively for decades to the language of food.” —Maureen...

This is a revised and updated edition of an award-winning book, recognized as the authoritative work on the subject of British food. It is a breathtaking attempt to trace the changes to and influences on food in Britain from the Black Death through the Enclosures, the Reformation, the Industrial Revolution, and the rise of Capitalism to the present day.

Chef and food writer Ben Benton is on a mission. British food is usually seen as a dire affair - if people think of it at all, they picture fish and chips, tea and cakes, stiff sandwiches and limp vegetables. But the truth is that British food today is one of the world's most innovative and...

Someone has added murder to the menu… Judith Spears never expected a humble burger van to serve up anything more dangerous than questionable ketchup. She was wrong. When a local fast-food entrepreneur is found dead, Judith is drawn into a surprisingly cutthroat world of rival traders, simmering grudges, and secrets best left buried. With the ever-hungry DS Raymond Collins and the sharp-eyed DC Sarah Eastly on the case, it quickly becomes clear that country lay-bys hide more than passing trade. Because someone is willing to kill to protect their patch. And this time… the danger is closer...

A cosy mystery compilation perfect for fans of Sally Smith, Steve Higgs, LJ Ross, Robert Thorogood, and Richard Osman. When she relocates to Spain’s Costa del Sol, Karen McLaren turns her back on an unfaithful husband and a long teaching career. She arrives at the Club Britannia complex for the over-60s carrying many plans for her future… …finding herself investigating crimes along with an eccentric group of Spanish and expat friends isn’t one of them. But Karen discovers she has a real talent as an amateur sleuth. She’s aided by her sharp intellect, the expert lip-reading skills ...

America’s founding generation drank a staggering amount of alcohol by today’s standards. It influenced their politics, built and sustained their relationships, and drove the economy. Booze was not a small part of colonial society, nor covertly consumed in private spaces—it was integral to...

Written and read by the Hairy Bikers The Hairy Bikers are known for their many best-selling cookbooks, including the HAIRY DIETERS, HAIRY BIKERS' PERFECT PIES, GREAT CURRIES and MUMS KNOW BEST, and now they are here to tell you how it all started. Si King and Dave Myers, aka The Hairy Bikers...

Murder, Secrets, and Scandal Arrive at Haddon Hall… and This Time, Everyone Is Hiding Something. The Haddon Hall Harvest Murders is Book 5 in the Flour Power series A glamorous autumn harvest celebration at the legendary Haddon Hall turns deadly when a respected guest collapses during the evening banquet. Beneath the warm glow of lanterns, fresh-baked pies, and festive market stalls, someone has served more than food… they have served murder. What should have been a charming countryside gathering quickly spirals into fear as whispers spread through the cobbled streets of Bakewell. ...

A Boston Globe Best Book of the Summer "A delectably fun murder mystery set against the sumptuous backdrop of Paris." —Nita Prose, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid series In Paris, murder is a dish best served with chocolate éclairs. Starting over in Paris was supposed to be...

On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Mount Everest’s North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain’s finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a young Oxford scholar of twenty-two with little previous mountaineering...

From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir comes an unforgettable novel of a BBC-sponsored wartime cooking competition and the four women who enter for a chance to better their lives. Two years into World War II, Britain is feeling her losses: The Nazis have won battles, the...

THE PEAK DISTRICT POISONER A Derbyshire Cozy Mystery — Where the Labels Lie Flour Power Mysteries — Book Four A trusted market. A perfect lie. A jar of honey that kills. Bakewell’s beloved Saturday market has always run on one thing: trust. But when a respected stallholder collapses behind his Peak District provenance display, baker‑sleuth Olivia Baker is the first to notice what everyone else misses — the honey jar on his table wasn’t what the label claimed. And neither was he. “The honey jar… his personal tasting jar… had been used.” What begins as a tragic market‑...

It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture. The bourgeois worked for corporations, wore gray, and went to church. The bohemians were artists and intellectuals. Bohemians championed the values of the liberated 1960s; the...

Welcome to THE DOVEDALE DECEPTION — the gripping new installment in The Flour Power Mysteries, where the breathtaking beauty of the Derbyshire Peak District hides a chilling web of lies, corruption, and murder. Perfect for fans of British cozy mysteries, culinary crime fiction, village whodunits, amateur sleuth mysteries, food fraud thrillers, and atmospheric English countryside suspense, this unforgettable mystery combines stunning natural landscapes with dark secrets buried beneath the surface. When investigator Olivia Baker arrives in the idyllic Peak District to uncover suspicious ...

Bloomsbury presents The Devil in the Kitchen by Marco Pierre White, read by Timothy Bentinck An exhilarating memoir from the original "bad boy" of cooking and a thrilling look behind the doors of a 3-star kitchen. Without question, the original rock-star chef is Marco Pierre White. Anyone with...

When Peter Mayle and his wife traded England's long, gray winters and damp summers for life in southern France, they entered an enchanting, wonderful, sometimes bewildering world. Now, share their adventures, pleasures, and frustrations: the joys and occasional hazards of wining and dining in...

In a tale replete with scandal and opulence, Luke Barr, author of the New York Times bestselling Provence, 1970, transports readers to turn-of-the-century London and Paris to discover how celebrated hotelier César Ritz and famed chef Auguste Escoffier joined forces at the Savoy Hotel to spawn...

The classic introduction to economic thought, now updated in time for the publication of New Ideas from Dead CEOs This entertaining and accessible introduction to the great economic thinkers throughout history? Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and more?shows how...