Buy this book on-line HARDYMENT, CHRISTINA: : Slice of Life: The British Way of Eating Since 1945LONDON.BBC BOOKS,1995. ISBN 0563370874.
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Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated colour photographic dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present - as new.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no marks and no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread.Unblemished,pale slate-grey paper-covered boards with bright,crisp, stamped silver gilt letters to spine/
backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,6-224pp [paginated] includes half-title+title pages,contents list,foreword,6 chapters, profuse b/w line illus+b/w and colour contemporary source photographs,a bibliograhy and an index.
food - and how we prepare and eat it - is
at the very heart of British culture.What we eat reflects what we are and changes to our diet have a profound effect on our lives.Indeed,some of the great historical developments in Britain since the Second World War have occurred not on the battlefield or in Parliament but rather around the dinner table,in the curry house
and in the aisles of the supermarket.
Christina Hardyment traces the development of British eating habits from the austerity of the 1940's,when food substitutes like snoek were presented as fuel to fire a beleaguered nation,to the end of rationing in the 1950's and the consequent explosion of hostess cookery; from the mass discovery of cappuccino, Coca-Cola and the Galloping Gourmet to the
vast expansion in Britain's vocabulary of flavours as a consequence of Chinese and Asian immigration in the 1960's;and from the 1980's,when the obsession with health food put guilt on the menu,to the way we eat now,when what you choose to eat has become the ultimate fashion statement.
'Slice of Life' takes a sideways look at the last fifty years of British history.
Always perceptive and often amusing, Christina Hardyment tells a story that is so much a part of our everyday lives that we are almost entirely unawars of its existence.From the serving hatch to the microwave,from the Ministry of Food to organic avacados,the shifts and upheavals of modern British life are mirrored by the history of what we eat,when,why and with whom.The book was published to accompany the BBC television series 'Slice of Life', first broadcast in 1995.
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