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
'Fascinating' Philippa Gregory
'Thought-provoking, erudite and moreish' Ned Palmer
Welcome to the early modern era - a revolutionary age when the rituals and rhythms of food underpinned all of daily life.
From raucous nights at the alehouse to the sumptuous delights of a Tudor Christmas, join historian Charlie Taverner as he uncovers a lost culinary world of surprising diversity, where every dish held deep significance. As colonial expansion brought new flavours to Europe, religious divides, civil war, economic turmoil and a changing climate shook society's foundations - and upended ancient ways of eating and drinking.
Journeying to cacophonous markets and sombre monasteries, joining ravenous crowds of bread rioters and leaping aboard carnival floats made of meat and cheese, Daily Bread reconstructs this vibrant and visceral pre-industrial past, and asks what it can teach us about eating and living well today.
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
'Fascinating' Philippa Gregory
'Thought-provoking, erudite and moreish' Ned Palmer
Welcome to the early modern era - a revolutionary age when the rituals and rhythms of food underpinned all of daily life.
From raucous nights at the alehouse to the sumptuous delights of a Tudor Christmas, join historian Charlie Taverner as he uncovers a lost culinary world of surprising diversity, where every dish held deep significance. As colonial expansion brought new flavours to Europe, religious divides, civil war, economic turmoil and a changing climate shook society's foundations - and upended ancient ways of eating and drinking.
Journeying to cacophonous markets and sombre monasteries, joining ravenous crowds of bread rioters and leaping aboard carnival floats made of meat and cheese, Daily Bread reconstructs this vibrant and visceral pre-industrial past, and asks what it can teach us about eating and living well today.
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
'Fascinating' Philippa Gregory
'Thought-provoking, erudite and moreish' Ned Palmer
Welcome to the early modern era – a revolutionary age when the rituals and rhythms of food underpinned all of daily life.
From raucous nights at the alehouse to the sumptuous delights of a Tudor Christmas, join historian Charlie Taverner as he uncovers a lost culinary world of surprising diversity, where every dish held deep significance. As colonial expansion brought new flavours to Europe, religious divides, civil war, economic turmoil and a changing climate shook society's foundations – and upended ancient ways of eating and drinking.
Journeying to cacophonous markets and sombre monasteries, joining ravenous crowds of bread rioters and leaping aboard carnival floats made of meat and cheese, Daily Bread reconstructs this vibrant and visceral pre-industrial past, and asks what it can teach us about eating and living well today.
Reviews for Daily Bread
Philippa Gregory, author of THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL
Ned Palmer, author of A CHEESEMONGER'S HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ISLES
Clare Jackson, author of THE MIRROR OF GREAT BRITAIN
Mallika Basu, author of IN GOOD TASTE
Dr Eleanor Barnett, author of LEFTOVERS
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.