Jacqui Wood. Tasting the Past: Recipes from Antiquity. Bee-Keeping Blondel la Rougery

Blondel la Rougery

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Brown cloth tooled in blind

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Fantastic menu with beautiful illustrated cover

Jacqui Wood. Tasting the Past: Recipes from Antiquity. Bee-Keeping Blondel la RougeryThe many influences of the past on our diet today make the concept of "British food" very hard to define. The Celts, Romans, Saxons, Vikings, and Normans all brought ingredients to the table, as it were, and onwards the Crusades spread all manner of spices. The Georgians enjoyed a new level of excess, and then of course the world wars forced everyone into the challenge of making meals from very little. The post war period brought convenience foods,