Tasting the Past: Recipes from the Middle Ages to the Civil War

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Tasting the Past: Recipes from the Middle Ages to the Civil WarThe many influences of the past on our diet make the concept of 'British food' very hard to define. The Celts, Romans, Saxons, Vikings and Normans each brought ingredients to the table, and the country was introduced to all manner of spices following the Crusades. The Georgians enjoyed a new level of excess and then, of course, the world wars forced us into the challenge of making meals from very little. The history of cooking in Britain is as

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