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Index
Cover
Contents
About the Book
About the Author
List of Illustrations
Dedication
Title Page
Introduction
Part I
Chapter One: In which it is fish day on the Mary Rose, anchored in Portsmouth harbour (Saturday 18 July 1545)
Chapter Two: In which John Dunton eats oatcake and hare boiled in butter in a Connaught cabin (1698)
Chapter Three: In which the Holloway family eat maize bread and salt beef succotash, Sandwich, New England (June 1647)
Chapter Four: In which Colonel James Drax holds a feast at his sugar plantation on the island of Barbados (1640s)
Chapter Five: In which la Belinguere entertains Sieur Michel Jajolet de la Courbe to an African-American meal on the west coast of Africa (June 1686)
Chapter Six: In which Samuel and Elizabeth Pepys dine on pigeons à l’esteuvé and boeuf à la mode at a French eating house in Covent Garden (12 May 1667)
Part II
Chapter Seven: In which the Latham family eat beef and potato stew, pudding and treacle, Scarisbrick, Lancashire (22 January 1748)
Chapter Eight: In which a slave family eat maize mush and possum on Middleburg plantation, South Carolina (1730s)
Chapter Nine: In which Lady Anne Barnard enjoys fine cabin dinners on a voyage to the Cape of Good Hope (February to May 1797)
Chapter Ten: In which Sons of Liberty drink rum punch at the Golden Ball Tavern, Merchants Row, Boston (a cold evening in January 1769)
Part III
Chapter Eleven: In which Kamala prepares a meal for her family, near Patna, Bihar (February 1811)
Chapter Twelve: In which Sarah Harding and her family grow fat eating plenty of good food in Waipawa, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand (29 July 1874)
Chapter Thirteen: In which Frank Swannell eats bean stew, bannock and prune pie in British Columbia (15 November 1901)
Chapter Fourteen: In which the Reverend Daniel Tyerman and Mr George Bennet attend a tea party in Raiatea, the Society Islands (4 December 1822)
Part IV
Chapter Fifteen: In which diamond miners cook up an iguana curry at a rum shop in Guyana during the rainy season (1993)
Chapter Sixteen: In which the Bartons entertain the Wilsons to tea in the London Road slum district of Manchester (May 1839)
Chapter Seventeen: In which Prakash Tandon enjoys a Sunday roast with his landlady’s family in a Manchester council house (1931)
Chapter Eighteen: In which the recipe for irio changes (Kenya, 1900–2016)
Chapter Nineteen: In which infantryman R. L. Crimp eats bully beef and sweet potatoes in a forward camp in the North African desert (September 1941)
Chapter Twenty: In which Mr Oldknow dreams of making an Empire plum pudding (24 December 1850) and Bridget Jones attends Una Alconbury’s New Year’s Day Turkey Curry Buffet Lunch (1 January 1996)
Picture Section
Notes and References
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index
Copyright
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