The English Kitchen
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The Homemade Vegan
Vegetarianism has a relatively long history in Britain dating to the early part of the 19th-century The Vegetarian Society was formed in 1947and by the 1880s vegetarian restaurants had begun to appear in London. For most vegetarians, the motivation was ethical but food scarcities during the secon...
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The Centaur's Kitchen
The Centaur's Kitchen is a wonderfully evocative cookery manual by one of England’s greatest modern food-writers. It was written in 1964, at the request of the Blue Funnel Line shipping company chairman, to better instruct their Chinese cooks in cooking fresh and flavoursome food. In a f...
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The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie,Kt. Opened (1669)
Peter Davidson, Jane Stevenson
This is a paperback edition of a classic of 17th-century English writing about food and drink. There is perhaps none that is more frequently quoted than this, no title more familiar, although the complete title, The closet of the eminently learned Sir Kenelm Digbie Kt. opened: Whereby is disc...
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The English Kitchen
The papers collected here were originally presented to the eighteenth Leeds Symposium on Food History as ‘The Changing Face of Food’. Individual chapters reflect the enthusiasm of the contributors and celebrate a few of the items that have been provided in the English kitchen for the English tabl...