December 2023 Issue Lucy Lethbridge Jam Yesterday Stuffed: A History of Good Food and Hard Times in Britain By Pen Vogler LR
December 2023 Issue Owen Matthews Feeding the Great Bear What’s Cooking in the Kremlin: From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork By Witold Szabłowski (Translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) LR
September 2019 Issue Jerry White They Cornered the Market Legacy: One Family, a Cup of Tea and the Company that Took on the World By Thomas Harding LR
February 2018 Issue Felipe Fernández-Armesto Glory Be to Cod Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization By Brian Fagan LR
August 2017 Issue John Keay Reading the Leaves A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World By Erika Rappaport LR
August 2017 Issue Felipe Fernández-Armesto All They Could Eat The Hungry Empire: How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World By Lizzie Collingham LR
October 1994 Issue Julian Barnes Did You Get Black Truffles on the Nose? Chateau Latour: The History of a Great Vineyard 1331-1992 By Charles Higounet (ed) (Translated by Edmund Penning-Rowsell) Haut-Brion By Asa Briggs LR
April 2003 Issue Kathryn Hughes Mad Cows & Englishman Beef and Liberty: Roast Beef, John Bull and the English Nation By Ben Rogers LR
December 2004 Issue Christopher Ondaatje The Lure of the Peppercorn Spice: The History of Temptation By Jack Turner LR
June 2008 Issue Julia Keay Pungent Unguents Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination By Paul Freedman LR
November 2007 Issue Elisabeth Luard Catnip to the Gastronome Delizia! The Epic History of the Italians and their Food By John Dickie The Oxford Companion to Italian Food By Gillian Riley LR
July 2007 Issue Jason Goodwin Storm in A Teacup Tea: The Drink that Changed the World By John Griffiths LR
September 2012 Issue Paul Levy Stomach Bugs Fear of Food: A History of Why We Worry about What We Eat By Harvey Levenstein LR
October 2012 Issue Raymond Sokolov Back to the Chopping Board Consider the Fork: A History of Invention in the Kitchen By Bee Wilson LR
May 2013 Issue Andy Martin Chewing Things Over Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the Sciences in Paris, 1670–1760 By E C Spary LR
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