One of The Times<\/i> Books of the Year 2020<\/b>
Shortlisted for The Fortnum & Mason Food & Drink Awards 2021, Debut Food Book<\/b>
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‘Fascinating and entertaining – a pleasure to read.’ Claudia Roden<\/b><\/p>\n
Have you ever stopped to wonder how our most beloved foods came to be the way they are now? As a nation of food-lovers we have been munching on fruit and veg, drinking tea and coffee and adorning our dishes with oils and spices for generations, but how did this happen? What is the history of our favourite foodstuffs?<\/p>\n
In this series of enlightening and highly entertaining essays, award-winning food writer Mark Riddaway travels back through the centuries to tell the fascinating, surprising and often downright bizarre stories of some of the everyday ingredients found at London’s Borough Market.<\/p>\n
Discover how the strawberries we eat today had their roots in a clandestine trip to South America by a French spy whose surname happened to be Strawberry, why three-quarters of Britain’s late-18th-century intake of tea was sold on the black market, and what Sigmund Freud found so fascinating about eel genitalia.<\/p>\n
From the humble apples and onions that we’ve grown on these shores for centuries, to more exotic ingredients like cinnamon and bananas that travel from across the world to finesse our food, Borough Market: Edible Histories<\/i> offers a chance to digest the charming stories behind every last morsel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As a nation of food-lovers we have been munching on bread and butter, tea and cake, turkey and mince pies for generations, but have you ever stopped to think how our most beloved foods came to be the way they are now? In this title award-winning food writer, Mark Riddaway, takes us on a culinary journey through the most fascinating, surprising and downright bizarre stories behind Britain’s favourite tipples and nibbles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[59],"product_tag":[60,1670,751,349],"class_list":["post-92963","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-food-drink","product_tag-cookery-food-drink-etc","product_tag-cookery-by-ingredient","product_tag-food-society","product_tag-social-cultural-history","pa_book_author-riddaway-mark","pa_cover-paperback","pa_dewey-641-0941-edition23","pa_imprint-hodder","pa_language-english","pa_pages-8341","pa_publisher-hodder","pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","first","onbackorder","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n