Stuffed - Pen Vogler, Atlantic Books

The fascinating history of the people, the ideas and the dishes that have fed - and starved - the nation, by the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Scoff. Whose responsibility is it to make sure there is something to eat on every table? To make sure that children get milk and cereal, eggs and toast to keep hunger at bay? To feed key workers, whether they be NHS nurses, or soldiers fighting abroad? And do we all have the right to good food?This story of our changing customs and laws around our food, from prehistory to the present, reveals how every generation has fought to feed the family and the nation, and how battles over farmland, the kitchen, or the restaurant, shape the food we eatIt is a tale of the yeasty magic of bread and ale, the thrill of sugary treats, the pies and puddings that punctuate the year and our strange love-hate relationship with fish, vegetables and cheese.