The Great British Food Tour - (National Trust) by Jenny Linford (Hardcover)

About the Book

• Fascinating and entertaining entries about Britain's greatest dishes and ingredients.
• Includes recipes for 20 classics.
• Beautifully illustrated.
• Supported by the National Trust.

Book Synopsis

• Fascinating and entertaining entries about Britain's greatest dishes and ingredients.
• Includes recipes for 20 classics.
• Beautifully illustrated.
• Supported by the National Trust.

Do you know your Bedfordshire clanger from your Dorset knob? Your Kentish cobnuts from your Cromer crab?

This guide is packed with stories and facts about the food that makes Britain great. From regional specialities to national favourites, it explores our wonderful foodscape in all its diversity and vitality. You'll find cherished classics alongside more recent additions - singing hinnies, pan haggerty and bara brith, as well as samosas, jerk chicken and urban honey. There are also some delicious recipes that make the most of locally produced ingredients to impress friends and family.

Review Quotes

A treasure trove of the traditional dishes and ingredients that define British food.

"Jenny Linford's delightful prose explores the history of the foods that make Britain.

From Bedfordshire Clangers to Black Buns, Jenny Linford charmingly tells the story of the familiar and forgotten British foods.

Keep a copy on the bedside table and another the glove compartment: this is packed with delicious reasons to tour the whole of the United Kingdom/delicious and intriguing foods not to miss when travelling through the country.

Jenny's book is proof that the British have a noble and delicious food tradition."

Xanthe Clay

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