Clarissa Dickson Wright
Praise for A History of English Food
This is a marvellous read ... [Clarissa Dickson Wright's] skill is to make food, even 800 years ago, seem relevant and amusing today
Country Life
Magnificently eccentric and robustly informative ... an impressive tour of the horizon of a well-stocked mind ... [a] glorious sense of the continuity of English cuisine from the Middle Ages to the present sh ...
Sunday Telegraph
Combining her two great passions of food and history, she takes us on a chatty and fascinating crawl
Daily Mail
from Medieval times when pigeons, eels and nettles were staples, to the pizzas, baked beans and chips of toda ...
This is a marvellous read ... [Clarissa Dickson Wright's] skill is to make food, even 800 years ago, seem relevant and amusing today
Country Life
Magnificently eccentric and robustly informative ... an impressive tour of the horizon of a well-stocked mind ... [a] glorious sense of the continuity of English cuisine from the Middle Ages to the present sh ...
Sunday Telegraph
Combining her two great passions of food and history, she takes us on a chatty and fascinating crawl
Daily Mail
from Medieval times when pigeons, eels and nettles were staples, to the pizzas, baked beans and chips of toda ...
This is a marvellous read ... [Clarissa Dickson Wright's] skill is to make food, even 800 years ago, seem relevant and amusing today
Country Life
Magnificently eccentric and robustly informative ... an impressive tour of the horizon of a well-stocked mind ... [a] glorious sense of the continuity of English cuisine from the Middle Ages to the present sh ...
Sunday Telegraph
Combining her two great passions of food and history, she takes us on a chatty and fascinating crawl
Daily Mail
from Medieval times when pigeons, eels and nettles were staples, to the pizzas, baked beans and chips of toda ...