Stuffed: A Political History of What We Eat and Why it Matters

Author:   Pen Vogler
Publisher:   Atlantic Books
Edition:   Main
ISBN:  

9781838955762


Pages:   464
Publication Date:   03 October 2024
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Pen Vogler
Publisher:   Atlantic Books
Imprint:   Atlantic Books
Edition:   Main
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.397kg
ISBN:  

9781838955762


ISBN 10:   1838955763
Pages:   464
Publication Date:   03 October 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.

Table of Contents

Part One: Before the Enclosures 1: Introduction 2: Beans Recipe:: Fried Beans 3: Worts 4: Bacon 5: Bread and Ale 6: Carp Part Two: The Enclosures and After 1: Introduction 2: Turnips Recipe: Beef Stew with Turnips 3: Goose 4: Herring 5: Potatoes and Jam 6: Cheese Part Three: Organization 1: Introduction 2: Salt Beef 3: Oatmeal Recipe: Havercakes 4: Christmas Pudding 5: Strawberries Part Four: Children and Families 1: Introduction 2: Sugar 3: Gruel 4: Yorkshire Pudding 5: Scotch Barley Broth and Rhubarb Tart Recipe: Barley Broth or Scotch Broth Part Five: Sharing 1: Introduction 2: Beef and Beer (No Fish) 3: Wine and Ale 4: Pumpkin Pie Recipe: Pumpkin Pie 5: Meat Pie and Woolton Pie Part Six: Crises 1: Introduction 2: Tea 3: Bread and Butter 4: Potatoes and Cornmeal Recipe: Cornbread 5: Mustard and Pickles

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A fact-stuffed romp through our edible history... Impressively wide-ranging... [Vogler] relishes the moments where the past crashes up against the present. * The Times * A banquet of fascinating titbits, deep research and intellectual nourishment... Stuffed is dusted, metaphorically speaking, all over with icing sugar: a delicious and tempting thing. -- Rachel Cooke * Observer * Fascinating... A scholarly and imaginative book full of incident and food for thought * Mail on Sunday * Delightful... Vogler offers up a feast of tales about popular British foods, ranging from potatoes to kippers and ale. -- Gillian Tett * Financial Times * Delicious... [Vogler] is excellent, as in her 2020 book Scoff, at foraging among the sources to bring us wonderful stories of older food cultures. * Guardian * In this provocative history of British food, Pen Vogler goes back 400 years to lay the blame for our absurd modern eating habits. * Sunday Times * Engaging... Vogler shows how ongoing - and vital - the battle is to eat well... Deeply researched and great fun. It might make you think twice about what you eat, too. * Evening Standard * There is so much to enjoy in Stuffed... Vogler is a hands-on historian for whom the past is right there in the kitchen, the supermarket and the everyday ingredient. In Stuffed, her delight in the taste and craft of food-making, its stories and its skills is irresistibly palpable. * Literary Review * Vogler's book is divided into the histories of different foods - each telling of supply and demand falling into the right or wrong hands. The stories span pre-Enclosure times to the recent pandemic. They are deeply unsettling and anger-provoking, and it's a book that those who have influence over what we eat should read. -- Rose Prince * Spectator * Persuasive... This clever and informative account confirms that we are indeed what we eat, and that our history is a product of it too. * New Statesman * Eating and feeding are the central projects of all human societies and Stuffed reveals that they are the very best lenses through which to understand our shared history. This is an extraordinary book about food, health and power; meticulously scholarly and extremely funny; as important as it is entertaining. Crucially it slices through the contemporary and historical politics of state versus individual responsibility: eating well is our responsibility, but it is the responsibility of the state to ensure we have that ability. And the book furnishes some ability itself with a series of recipes so that you can dine like a 17th central nobleman or a medieval peasant and feel a little more connected to the story of why we eat what we eat. Shot through with wit and humanity Stuffed is an all-consuming read. -- Chris van Tulleken, author of Ultra-Processed People Thoughtful, thought-provoking and full of fascinating detail (and intriguing recipes), this is a timely reminder we should never take our food for granted. -- Felicity Cloake Pen Vogler's Stuffed may tackle the question of hunger, but it is a generous and irresistible feast of a book. Spanning more than one thousand years of history, and focussing on 26 staple foods, Stuffed details the complex forces that determine diet, making clearer than ever that what we feed ourselves, our families and our communities is socially and politically shaped, and it always has been. -- Polly Russell An ambitious book, leaping merrily from the Neolithic to the modern day... A wry sense of humour keeps it light, widening the appeal beyond food-history devotees, and modernised recipes are cleverly used to illustrate Vogler's points... A fun read and an illuminating look at food inequality - and responsibility - in the past. -- Annie Gray * BBC History Magazine * This culinary history of Britain looks at the foods that sustained, nourished or delighted its inhabitants in times of plenty and hardship... Pen Vogler is warm, wise company throughout * History Revealed, 'Book of the Month' * Serves up a veritable smorgasbord of delicious tidbits as it charts the history of our island through the contents of its dinner plates * Buzz Magazine * This mouthwatering, kaleidoscopic history is infused with a light, informative tone and is convincingly argued... Meticulously researched, spiced with penetrating analysis and rich in colourful detail, Stuffed is a sparkling banquet. * Business Post * Informative, enraging and entertaining in equal measure * Choice Magazine * Packed with facts - fascinating, illuminating, sometimes funny and at times shocking - about the history of food and society... You'll be engrossed from the first page. * Delicious Magazine *


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Pen Vogler is a food historian and author of the Sunday Times bestseller Scoff: A History of Food and Class in Britain, Dinner with Mr Darcy and Dinner with Dickens. She edited Penguin's Great Food series and guest curated the exhibition 'Food Glorious Food' at the Charles Dickens Museum.

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