Daily Bread (Hardback)
Feast and Famine Before the Industrial Age
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The sumptuous and surprising story of early modern food, drink and community, from a food policy expert and academic
A village gathers the harvest and celebrates with a feast. A cook adds foraged herbs to a pottage which will feed the entire household of a country estate. Lifting hands in prayer, a monk begins his fast.
Before the age of processed food, every meal held meaning. Much of what we value most in our food today - seasonality, local ingredients and sense of community - was once essential to every dish.
In Daily Bread, Charlie Taverner reconstructs the lost flavours and surprising culinary diversity of the past, from bustling markets in Tudor London and springtime carnivals in Italy to famine on the harsh coast of colonial America. This is the colourful, globe-spanning story of how food and people shaped the birth of the modern world.
Daily Bread (Ebook)
Feast and Famine Before the Industrial Age
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The sumptuous and surprising story of early modern food, drink and community, from a food policy expert and academic
A village gathers the harvest and celebrates with a feast. A cook adds foraged herbs to a pottage which will feed the entire household of a country estate. Lifting hands in prayer, a monk begins his fast.
Before the age of processed food, every meal held meaning. Much of what we value most in our food today - seasonality, local ingredients and sense of community - was once essential to every dish.
In Daily Bread, Charlie Taverner reconstructs the lost flavours and surprising culinary diversity of the past, from bustling markets in Tudor London and springtime carnivals in Italy to famine on the harsh coast of colonial America. This is the colourful, globe-spanning story of how food and people shaped the birth of the modern world.
Daily Bread (Audiobook)
Feast and Famine Before the Industrial Age
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The sumptuous and surprising story of early modern food, drink and community, from a food policy expert and academic
A village gathers the harvest and celebrates with a feast. A cook adds foraged herbs to a pottage which will feed the entire household of a country estate. Lifting hands in prayer, a monk begins his fast.
Before the age of processed food, every meal held meaning. Much of what we value most in our food today – seasonality, local ingredients and sense of community – was once essential to every dish.
In Daily Bread, Charlie Taverner reconstructs the lost flavours and surprising culinary diversity of the past, from bustling markets in Tudor London and springtime carnivals in Italy to famine on the harsh coast of colonial America. This is the colourful, globe-spanning story of how food and people shaped the birth of the modern world.
Reviews for Daily Bread
Ned Palmer, author of A CHEESEMONGER'S HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ISLES
Bee Wilson The Sunday Times
Christopher Hart Daily Mail
London Review of Books
Charlie Taverner
Charlie Taverner is a writer, historian and farming policy advisor, who has taught at Birkbeck and Trinity College, Dublin. He has worked as a business and agricultural journalist, and is the author of Street Food: Hawkers and the History of London.