Food for Thought (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781529032611)

Dr Annie Gray is one of Britain's leading food historians. She is the author of several books, including The Greedy Queen: Eating with Victoria, Victory in the Kitchen: The Life of Churchill's Cook and The Official Downton Abbey Cookbook. She is the resident food historian on BBC Radio 4's culinary panel show, The Kitchen Cabinet, and has consulted on, and appeared in, a number of television documentaries. She's also in demand as a speaker and as a consultant to the heritage industry, having worked with organisations ranging from English Heritage to the National Trust and Historic Royal Palaces.

Selected writings from: Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Frank Scloesser, Eliza Acton, William Verral, Mrs F Gillette, Hugo Ziemann, William Kitchener, Petronius, Robert May, Ben Johnson, Owen Meredith, William Yarrell, Abby Fisher, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Charles Dickens, Brillat-Savarin, William Thackeray, Tabitha Tickletooth (Charles Selby), Henry Fielding, James Boswell, Daniel Defoe, Charles Greville, Nevil Shute, Samuel Pepys, George Orwell, George Sims, Henry Mayhew, Henry Labouchere, Charles Lamb, Jonathan Swift, Lewis Carroll, Walter Scott, Robert Burns, G R M Devereux, Isobel Johnstone, Walter Scott, Gabriel Tschumi, Joan Powe, Samuel Pegge, Mrs Beeton, Agnes Marshell, Countess Morphy, William Cobbett, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Agnes Jekyll and Alexis Soyer