Bøger af Neil Buttery

A book that explores pudding's enduring popularity and why puddings remain the ultimate comfort food. Since the pandemic, sales of puddings are up 20% overall, written by a chef, this is a thorough cultural history of the pudding in all its incarnations.

To tell Elizabeth's tumultuous rise and fall, historian Neil Buttery doesn't just delve into the history of food in the 18th century, he looks at trade and empire, domestic service, the agricultural revolution, women's rights, copyright law, gentlemen's clubs, horse races, the defeminization of midwifery, and the paranormal, to name but a few.

Delves into our evolutionary history to explain why sugar is so loved, yet is the root cause of so many bad things.