Jerry White

They Cornered the Market

Legacy: One Family, a Cup of Tea and the Company that Took on the World

By Thomas Harding

Pamela Vandyke Price

Where Does One Stop?

The Demon Drink

By Jancis Robinson

Jim Holt

Holt’s Confessions of a New York Winedrinker

Edward Behrens

Readers, Digest

The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change

By Bee Wilson

Christopher Ross

Growth Industry

The Truth About Fat

By Anthony Warner

Teresa Waugh

She Taught Us that Bouillon Won’t Do

Is There a Nutmeg in the House?

By Elizabeth David

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Glory Be to Cod

Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization

By Brian Fagan

Sophia Watson

Is this the Best Book Ever Written?

Chocolat

By Joanne Harris

Catherine Peters

Come Dine with We

The Greedy Queen: Eating with Victoria

By Annie Gray

Tom Fort

Farm & Fortune

Land of Plenty: A Journey Through the Fields & Foods of Modern Britain

By Charlie Pye-Smith

Anthony Sattin

La Dolce Eater

Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray

By Adam Federman

John Keay

Reading the Leaves

A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World

By Erika Rappaport

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

All They Could Eat

The Hungry Empire: How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World

By Lizzie Collingham

Christopher Hart

Serving up a Treat

The Plagiarist in the Kitchen

By Jonathan Meades

Simon Heffer

Choose Caerphilly

The Oxford Companion to Cheese

By Catherine Donnelly (ed)

Felicity Cloake

Mind over Morsel

Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating

By Charles Spence