English Breakfast
Subtitle: The Biography of a National Meal, with Recipes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780857854919
Description: The English breakfast is one of the best-loved national meals in the world, an edible symbol of England and Englishness. But how did breakfast attain this distinction, what can a national meal tell us about the nation that eats it, what are the links between social and culinary change, and is there more to the English breakfast than bacon and eggs? This biography of the English breakfast shows how the renowned meal came into being over many centuries, reaching its height in the Victorian and Edwardian eras when splendid breakfasts were served from silver dishes in grand country houses across t.