The Englishman's Food
The Englishman's Food

Author: Anne Wilbraham

Publisher: Pimlico

Published: 1917-02-23

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 9781845952419

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Medieval gardens; cookshops; spices; ale, beer, wine and spirits; the food of peasants, labourers, townspeople, the wealthy, the poor and the country gentleman; fish, meat and game; the feeding of infants, children; dairy products; vitamins, proteins, fat and fibre; the adulteration of food; the four bottle man; bread; poaching; tea, coffee and chocolate; food in schools and institutions; sugar and sweetmeats; root crops; the agricultural revolution; the importance of 'white meats', the vegetarian diet; menus and recipes. . . The Englishman's Food was first published in 1939, fully revised in 1957 and now appears with a new updating introduction. A ground-breaking book, it is a fascinating and authoritative survey of food production, consumption, fashions and follies over a period of five hundred years. Reprinted with a new introduction by food editor Tom Jaine.

The Englishman & the Eel
The Englishman & the Eel

Author: Stuart Freedman

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781911306207

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The Englishman and the Eel is a journey into that most London of institutions, the Eel, Pie and Mash shop. Today, these simple spaces hold within them the memories of a rich, largely undocumented cultural heritage of generations of working-class Londoners in a city whose only constant is change. Often elaborately decorated with ornate Victorian tiling, many sold live eels in metal trays that faced out onto the street to the fascination (and sometimes horror) of passersby. Inside, warmth and comfort. Steam. Tea. Laughter. Families.

The Englishman's Handbook
The Englishman's Handbook

Author: Idries Shah

Publisher: Octagon Press Ltd

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 0863040772

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This third book in the trilogy, The Englishman's Handbook, provides the British with an invaluable manual on foreigners and "how to deal with them." Packed with anecdotes, as well as handy tips from the press, it is all that any true Britisher will need to keep foreigners from his shores - or confuse them into submission if they do manage to break through. Traditional techniques like "The Group Mind," "Masterly Inactivity," and "Aversion Therapy" are explained in full. A treasury of information and an elucidator of misinformation, it's an illuminating and hilarious read.

One Fat Englishman
One Fat Englishman

Author: Kingsley Amis

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2013-09-17

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1590176898

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The hero of One Fat Englishman, a literary publisher and lapsed Catholic escaped from the pages of Graham Greene to the campus of Budweiser College in provincial Pennsylvania, is philandering, drunken, bigoted, and very very fat, not to mention in a state of continuous spluttering rage against everything, not least his own overgrown self. In America, Roger Micheldene must deal with not so obliging suburban housewives, aspiring Jewish novelists who as good as clean his clock, stray deer, bad cigars, children who beat him at Scrabble (“It was no wonder that people were horrible when they started life as children”), and America itself, while making ever-more desperate and humiliating overtures to Helen, a Scandinavian ice queen. If only Roger would dare to show some real feeling of his own. This comic masterpiece—about the 1950s crashing drunkenly into the consumerist 1960s and a final scion of a disintegrating Old World empire encountering its upstart New World offspring—is one of Kingsley Amis’s greatest and most caustic performances.

The Englishman's Garden
The Englishman's Garden

Author: Alvilde Lees-Milne

Publisher: Allan Lane

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9780713914368

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Thirty-three gardens of exceptional merit, quality, and beauty are described by their owners, professional and nonprofessional gardeners, recounting the planning and maintenance of the garden in detail.