English Food

‘An absolute gem’ Sunday Times ‘A mouthwatering history’ The Guardian In this delicious history of Britain’s food traditions, Diane Purkiss invites readers on a unique journey through the centuries, exploring the development of recipes and rituals for mealtimes such as breakfast, lunch...

In this major new history of English food, Clarissa Dickson Wright takes the reader on a journey from the time of the Second Crusade and the feasts of medieval kings to the cuisine - both good and bad - of the present day. She looks at the shifting influences on the national diet as new ideas and ingredients have arrived, and as immigrant communities have made their contribution to the life of the country. She evokes lost worlds of open fires and ice houses, of constant pickling and preserving, and of manchet loaves and curly-coated pigs.

Most people think health comes down to calories, willpower, or the "right" diet. Better Energy challenges that idea with a simple truth: health depends on how well your body produces energy. When your cells efficiently turn food into usable energy, digestion, hormones, mood, metabolism, sleep, and body composition tend to improve. When energy production falters, symptoms show up even if your diet looks "clean.

Sea, Salt and Spice is a definitive culinary biography of Mumbai - a city shaped as much appetite as by tides and trade. Long before it became shorthand for ambition, excess and overcrowded trains, Bombay was a porous island city, its kitchens stocked by fishermen, merchants, settlers and empire...

Mom has a stupid idea! No more crisps, sweets, or cake. Carsten does not like that idea. He is going to find somewhere else to live...

When Dorrie does the cooking, she is not afraid to try something new, because Dorrie loves all kinds of food. Almost all kinds… Read all about it in this book...

Early working copy, not final, translated ms delivered Jan 2026. If I hadn't searched for the 'flavors' of my memories, I think I would have spent my life endlessly chasing the past." Near Higashi Honganji Temple in Kyoto, Kamogawa Diner continues to attract lost souls seeking meaning in their...

Tourettes acording to modern medicine is for life. Same for Autism and ADHD. Yet, after a year of compulsive shouting, we solved my daughter's vocal tics. How many more diseases are "life-time" afflictions that will need a life time of drugs or constant care? Gut health specialist and GAPS coach...

Tom is a cat that loves any kind of food – except cat food...

An IFS approach to healing disordered eating and cultivating body trust—a parts-oriented path to understanding your parts, releasing body shame, and reclaiming embodied self-worth Healing the Whole Body offers a compassionate, paradigm-shifting approach to healing our relationship with food...

Laura Patterson is an American exchange student in Rome who, fed up with being inexpertly groped by her young Italian beaus, decides there's only one sure-fire way to find a sensual man: date a chef. Then she meets Tomasso, who's handsome, young - and cooks in the exclusive Templi restaurant...

In this New York Times bestseller, author Dr. Mark Hyman sorts through the conflicting research on food to provide an insightful and helpful guide to the ways we fuel our bodies. "A clear roadmap for the confused eater." —Sanjay Gupta, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Keep Sharp Did...

Do you remember when the milkman left bottles on the doorstep, when the whole street gathered round to watch the Coronation, and when a Saturday treat was a quarter of sweets from the corner shop?

Are you hungry for connection? Do you turn to food for comfort when you're feeling lonely, anxious, or depressed? Perhaps you have a history of yo-yo dieting, or use food to deal with stress? If you struggle with emotional eating, undereating, or obsessions about nutrition, you may have an...

A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where eighteen families...

From a leading nutrition researcher, this diet book offers easy to follow guidance and meal plans so you can lose the weight and keep it off—without depriving yourself the way other diets require. As a society, we keep looking for ways to lose weight—preferably ones that are simple...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Are you tired of being at war with food? Do you find yourself eating in secret, eating until you feel sick, or thinking about food almost constantly even when you are not hungry? You are not weak. You are a person whose brain has been hijacked by a food...

Many people have come into one 12-Step program or another for food addiction, but end up failing. This book analyzes those programs and shows how most failures are due to misapprehensions about those programs, the A.A. Big Book, and the Steps.

The Diet Designed Just for You Could the toast you ate for breakfast bring on your afternoon headache? Could the milk in your coffee cause joint pain and brain fog? Could your healthy tofu stir-fry slow your metabolism? Yes-there is an age-old, powerful connection between what you eat and how...

Higher intake of ultra-processed foods has been associated with a laundry list of ailments. It makes sense that greater consumption would be associated with more dental cavities, thanks to their sugar, obesity, thanks to their concentration of calories, and an increased risk of high blood pressure, thanks to their salt, which is linked to higher rates of cardiovascular events, like heart attacks and strokes. And, since cardiovascular diseases are our leading killers, it also makes sense that excess intake of ultra-processed foods could lead to increased overall mortality.