The Taste of Britain |
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Laura Mason, Catherine Brown
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Pages: 544 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 0007241321
Pub: HarperPress
Pub date: 2006-10-02
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 9107
Reader Reviews:
Buy this gorgeous book for yourself! (7/8 people found this helpful)
Ever wondered what is really in Haggis? Or what is an Arbroath Smokie, or cheddar cheese or a Sally Lunn or potted hough or patum perperium or..or...? Its all here with loads of fascinating background stories, beautifully presented in a proper binding and on paper that feels and smells as it should. Just like a milestone book ought to be. Giving this as a present might prove expensive, because you'll need another copy for youself when you see it.
A tasty pudding of a book (7/8 people found this helpful)
Like a great jewelled pudding, if you try to eat all of this book at one sitting you will soon have massive indigestion. But dip into it, have a little sliver, and it is a delight of old and not so old British foods and compound ingredients, indexed by region. Some you know, some you don't, some you half know. What is an Isle Of Wight Doughnut? How does cider fit in a cake raised with Bicarbonate of Soda? What is Shrub? Does Barley wine use wine yeast? Tizer, Vimto, Coleman's Mustard, muffins, snoots, Bath Olivers, Paving stones...
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