I have consulted a lot of books and articles while writing this novel, and have begged and borrowed from many of them. I gratefully acknowledge my special indebtedness to the following:
Reay Tannahill, Food In History and Flesh and Blood
Piers Paul Read, Alive
Charles Neilson Gattey, Excess in Food, Drink and Sex
William and Brenda Parry-Jones, ‘The Suckling of John Caius’ in The Caian, November 1989
David Bostwick, The Denby Dale Pies