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Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (Hardcover)

by Kate Colquhoun (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (1 Oct 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0747585768
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747585763
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 4.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 24,082 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Praise for 'A Thing in Disguise' 'A model of its kind. Like all good biographies, her study makes the past surprising again.' Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year 'If a better biography was published this year, I didn't read it.' Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Year 'Energetic, irresistible, a marvellously invigorating tale.' Francis Wheen, The Observer

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`Kate Colquhoun has done an engaging and admirable job of exploring one of food history's richest areas, British food. To understand Britain or understand the central role of food in history, read this book.'

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4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining and interesting, 1 Jan 2008
By Bluebell (UK) - See all my reviews
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If you're interested in cooking and eating this makes an interesting and entertaining read. The book is not just about tastes in food across the ages, but also weaves in technological changes that affected cooking and refers to the influence of political and religious factors on food habits and availability of products.

There are lots of facts about how names of dishes arose and how sayings connected with food came about. One is reminded how recently some of our familiar foods were introduced and how food fads and avoidances are not new. The author, quite rightly, emphasizes the huge gulf that existed until well into the 20th century between what the well-to-do were eating compared with the majority barely keeping body and soul together. The book is thus, inevitably, also about social history.

I finished the book very grateful to be cooking in the modern era and with enhanced respect for those who cooked in the past.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars We are what we've eaten, 13 Dec 2007
By Lawrence Norfolk - See all my reviews
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"Taste" by Kate Colquhoun tells the story of Britain through what Britons have cooked and consumed through the ages. It begins with a prehistoric rubbish heap and ends with the flashy cuisine of the 1980's; this is a fast-paced and wide inquiry. Along the way the author unearths plenty of weird facts and anecdotes - washers-up protecting their hands with mutton fat, how Henry VIII accidentally changed our relationship with fish - but the story is what sweeps you along. New foods are imported, like the pineapple, or come back into favour (the tomato - people used to think they were poisonous). Different techniques and gadgets make you wonder how people lived without them in the first place. No refrigerator? Either dig a thirty foot hole and fill it with ice or rub salt into meat to stop it going off. No microwave? It's a charcoal brazier or nothing. This book doesn't just tell you about how people used to live, cook and eat, it makes you re-think how we do these things now. It's a fascinating story, and almost makes you want to cook the stuffed cow's udder on page 203. Almost.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, 10 Mar 2008
By Giles Fair (Cambridge, UK) - See all my reviews
With its fine illustrations, this volume promises much food for thought, but lacks enough clear historical analysis to add much to the existing literature. You'd be better off buying Reay Tannahill's History of Food.
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