This is a fascinating history of English food, and how it is inextricable from the nation's history. Using myriad examples & anecdotes, such as Hogarth’s Roast Beef of Old England & the cartoons of Gilray, he proves that the hearty, battling spirit of the English yeoman is because of our great diet of beef & puddings, and the enfeebled & surrender prone French can blame their weak, cloudy broths. One that every vegetarian, continental & aspiring John Bull should read.
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