ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

First and foremost, I am eternally grateful to have been awarded several bursaries, for such a book, which demands years of research, is impossible to write without them. Profound thanks go to my colleagues at the Guild of Food Writers and to the Authors’ Foundation for their help; this book could not have been written but for them. Many thanks also to the British Library, the Wellcome Library, the London Library and to Mass-Observation at Sussex University Library for their time and patience; all material from the latter has been reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd., on behalf of the Trustees of the Mass-Observation Archive. I am deeply grateful to have had the enthusiasm and encouragement of my publisher, Anne Dolamore, throughout. I owe a special debt of gratitude to Ron Latham and the labour of love he has performed in picture research and also to his extensive library. I am thankful to Amy Myers for her rigorous editing and that rare ability to perform such a task with humanity and humour. I am also happy to thank friends and colleagues who were eager to help and enlighten, especially Dr Gary Lewis, Catherine Brown, Margaret Shaida, Prue Leith and Darina Allen on areas that were previously obscure to me. Lastly, my thanks to my partner, Claire Clifton, and her own library which has been indispensable.