Yoghurt cured François I of depression and helped feed Dr Livingstone on his African journeys but has only recently become part of the Western diet - Marmalade achieved commercial success after a cargo of oranges was salvaged from a Spanish merchant ship run aground in Dundee - Tabasco sauce owes its existence to the American Civil War. If you want to make the history of food your trivial pursuits specialised subject - read this book.
(Serena Fenwick - bwl 9 June 2001 ) |
