Food & Cooking, & Diet

Cookery and diet of our ancestors from prehistory onwards, from archaeological data to historic recipes.

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  1. The Road to Vindaloo

    The Road to Vindaloo: Curry Cooks and Curry Books [eBook (pdf)]

    David Burnett (Author); Helen Saberi (Author)

    £15.25

    ISBN: 9781909248144
    Published by : Prospect Books
    Series: English Kitchen
    This book traces the development of Anglo-Indian cookery, or curry, in English and Scottish cookery books from its earliest appearance in the 18th century through to modern works by Camilla Punjabi and Marguerite Patten. It wanders the lanes an... .... Learn More
  2. The Road to Vindaloo

    The Road to Vindaloo: Curry Cooks and Curry Books [eBook (epub)]

    David Burnett (Author); Helen Saberi (Author)

    £15.25

    ISBN: 9781909248120
    Published by : Prospect Books
    Series: English Kitchen
    This book traces the development of Anglo-Indian cookery, or curry, in English and Scottish cookery books from its earliest appearance in the 18th century through to modern works by Camilla Punjabi and Marguerite Patten. It wanders the lanes an... .... Learn More
  3. Feast

    Feast: From Hunter-Gatherers to TV Dinners [Hardback]

    Martin Jones (Author)

    £20.00

    ISBN: 9780199209019
    Published by : Oxford University Press
    The act of sitting down to share a meal is, this book argues, one of the defining features of human behaviour and of great importance in the evolution of what we might call civilization. In animal cultures food is a source of conflict and tensi... .... Learn More
  4. Feast

    Feast: From Hunter-Gatherers to TV Dinners [Paperback]

    Martin Jones (Author)

    £12.99

    ISBN: 9780199533527
    Published by : Oxford University Press
    The act of sitting down to share a meal is, this book argues, one of the defining features of human behaviour and of great importance in the evolution of what we might call civilization. In animal cultures food is a source of conflict and tensi... .... Learn More
  5. Food

    Food: The History of Taste [Hardback]

    Paul Freedman (Author)

    £24.95

    ISBN: 9780500251355
    Published by : Thames and Hudson
    This fascinating book brings together a team of scholars to tell the story of our love affair with food. Chapters focus primarily on Europe from prehistory to the present day, although there are diversions to savour the development of medieval ... .... Learn More
  6. A Baghdad Cookery Book

    A Baghdad Cookery Book [Paperback]

    Charles Perry (Editor)

    £10.00

    ISBN: 9781903018422
    Published by : Prospect Books
    Al-Baghdadi's Kitab al-Tabikh was for a long time the only medieval Arabic Cookery book known to the English-speaking world, thanks to A.J Arberry's path-breaking 1939 translation as `A Baghdad Cookery Book' which was re-issued by Prospect Book... .... Learn More
  7. Water of Life

    Water of Life: A History of Wine-Distilling and Spirits 500BC - AD2000 [Hardback]

    C.Anne Wilson (Author)

    £30.00

    ISBN: 9781903018460
    Published by : Prospect Books
    The conventionally held historical view is that the distillation of wine was invented in the mid twelfth century by scholars at Salerno. This book contends that the process has a much more ancient history starting with Dionysian mystery cults ... .... Learn More
  8. Cooking Apicius

    Cooking Apicius: Roman Recipes for Today [eBook (epub)]

    Sally Grainger (Author)

    £9.15

    ISBN: 9781909248038
    Published by : Prospect Books
    To accompany the new scholarly edition of Apicius, Sally Grainger has gathered, in one convenient volume, her modern interpretations of 64 of the recipes in the original text. These are not recipes inspired by the old Romans but rather a seriou... .... Learn More
  9. Cooking Apicius

    Cooking Apicius: Roman Recipes for Today [eBook (pdf)]

    Sally Grainger (Author)

    £9.15

    ISBN: 9781909248052
    Published by : Prospect Books
    To accompany the new scholarly edition of Apicius, Sally Grainger has gathered, in one convenient volume, her modern interpretations of 64 of the recipes in the original text. These are not recipes inspired by the old Romans but rather a seriou... .... Learn More
  10. Dinner for Dickens. The Culinary History of Mrs Charless's Menu Books Including a Transcript of `What Shall We Have for  Dinner?' by Lady Maria Clutterbuck

    Dinner for Dickens. The Culinary History of Mrs Charless's Menu Books Including a Transcript of `What Shall We Have for Dinner?' by Lady Maria Clutterbuck [Hardback]

    Susan Rossi-Wilcox (Author)

    £25.00

    ISBN: 9781903018385
    Published by : Prospect Books
    In an attempt to `rescue many fair friends from such domestic suffering' when faced with an onslaught of dinner guuests, Catherine Dickens wrote a pamphlet of suggested menus for meals and selected recipes. Dinner for Dickens publishes a tran... .... Learn More

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