The Storyteller's Supper - by Taffy Thomas (Hardcover)

About the Book

A feast of folk tales about food, with a foreword from Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food Movement

Book Synopsis

'You and me, me and you, we all bring something to the stew, From the tales we tell, to the food we've got, we all bring something to the pot.'

Over the last fifty years, Taffy Thomas has shared the stage with noted Lakeland chefs, who have tickled his palate with tastings and information about dishes and ingredients, which he uses to season these magical stories, telling the oral history of food.

This feast of traditional tales is spiced up with the rhymes and riddles that always enrich Taffy's work, as well as charming illustrations from artist Dotty Kultys, and will appeal to all who savour stories and food.

About the Author

Taffy Thomas is a professional storyteller who gives around 300 storytelling performances across the country each year. One of the UK's most loved storytellers, he was made an MBE in the 2000 New Year's Honours List for services to storytelling and charity. In 2000-2011 he became the first laureate for storytelling, a role created to promote the power of stories. Taffy is the artistic director of the Northern Centre for Storytelling in Grasmere and the author of many collections of folk tales for The History Press. Dotty Kultys is an animator whose work has been at Animafest Zagreb, New York Children's Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, Encounters Festival, Glasgow Short Film Festiva, and Anima Mundi. Carlo Petrini is the founder of the Slow Food Movement, the author of Slow Food Nation, and a past Time magazine Hero of the Year.