{"product_id":"taste-the-story-of-britain-through-its-cooking-9781596914100","title":"Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking","description":"\u003cp\u003eA fascinating history of how Britain learned to cook  from prehistory to the modern age.  Written with a storytellers flair and packed with astonishing facts  Taste is a sumptuous social history of Britain told through the development of its cooking. It encompasses royal feasts and street food  the skinning of eels and the making of strawberry jelly  mixing tales of culinary stars with those of the invisible hordes cooking in kitchens across the land. Beginning before Roman times  the book journeys through the ingredients  equipment  kitchens  feasts  fads  and famines of the British; it covers the piquancy of Norman cuisine  the influx of undreamed-of spices and new foods from the East and the New World  the Tudor pumpkin pie that journeyed with the founding fathers to become Americas national dish  the austerity of rationing during World War II  and the birth of convenience foods and take-away  right up to the age of Nigella Lawson  Heston Blumenthal  and Jamie Oliver. The first trade book to tell the story of British cookingwhich is  of course  the history that led up to American colonial cooking as wellTaste shows that kitchens are not only places of steam  oil  and sweat  but of politics  invention  cultural exchange  commerce  conflict  and play.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651873923125,"sku":"ByrdShop_1596914106","price":85.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781596914100.jpg?v=1781843367","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/taste-the-story-of-britain-through-its-cooking-9781596914100","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}