Borough Market: Edible Histories: Epic tales of everyday ingredients

Mark Riddaway's "Borough Market: Edible Histories" is a shortlisted book for the Fortnum & Mason Food & Drink Awards 2021. It explores the history of everyday ingredients at London's Borough Market, including how strawberries were discovered by a French spy, tea was sold on the black market, and Sigmund Freud was fascinated by eel genitalia. The book is a pleasure to read and offers a chance to digest the charming stories behind every last morsel.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 10 November 2022
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

One of The Times Books of the Year 2020, Debut Food Book, Shortlisted for The Fortnum & Mason Food & Drink Awards 2021, is a fascinating and entertaining read. Claudia Roden, a renowned food writer, delves into the history of our favorite foods, exploring how they came to be the way they are today. In this series of enlightening and highly entertaining essays, Mark Riddaway, an award-winning food writer, travels back through the centuries to tell the fascinating, surprising, and often bizarre stories of some of the everyday ingredients found at London's Borough Market.

Discover how the strawberries we eat today had their roots in a clandestine trip to South America by a French spy whose surname happened to be Strawberry. Why three-quarters of Britain's late-18th-century intake of tea was sold on the black market? And what did Sigmund Freud find so fascinating about eel genitalia?

From the humble apples and onions that we have grown on these shores for centuries to more exotic ingredients like cinnamon and bananas that travel from across the world to finesse our food, Borough Market: Edible Histories offers a chance to digest the charming stories behind every last morsel.

Weight: 206g
Dimension: 129 x 198 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529349733