Back In Time For Dinner: From Spam to Sushi: How We've Changed the Way We Eat - Rilegato

Gwynn, Mary

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ISBN 10: 0593075242 ISBN 13: 9780593075241

Casa editrice: Bantam Press, 2015

Riassunto

Do you remember the arrival of the fish finger, the rise and fall of Angel Delight, Vesta curries and Wimpy hamburgers? Did you own a fondue set or host a Tupperware party, or were you starving yourself on the Cabbage Soup Diet? Was life always too short to stuff a mushroom? And what was the point of Nouvelle Cuisine?
There has been a revolution in our kitchens. In 1950, the average housewife worked a seventy-five-hour week. No one owned a fridge or had seen a teabag, let alone an avocado or a Curly Wurly . Ten years later, sugar consumption had rocketed: we ate more biscuits for dinner than vegetables and fruit. It was not until the mid 1990s that we started to worry about ‘five a day’. And now, nearly twenty years on from the first vegetable-box delivery scheme, we are fatter than ever before . . . Has there ever been a golden age of the family meal?
Full of delicious detail, this marvellous companion to the BBC series is rich with nostalgia and provides a feast of extraordinary factual nuggets. Who can guess the filling of the first pre-packed sandwich in 1984? And who could have foreseen then that a kitchen robot that can write your shopping list is now just around the corner?
Reflecting all the fads and fashions that have graced our table, Back in Time for Dinner is much more than a book about dinner; it holds a mirror to our changing family lives.

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Recensione:

"Depending on your age, there'll be many foods and fads in here you'll remember with either fondness or disgust. A fascinating trip down our culinary Memory Lane, an eye-opening insight into how our eating habits have changed or have been changed, and a brilliant taster for the BBC TV series which is accompanies. A veritable feast of a book!" (Sunday Sport)

"A book with plenty of interesting facts that mirrors a changing world" (Best of British)

"If you have fond memories of Spam, Angel Delight, Vesta curries or even the Cabbage Soup Diet, and enjoyed the BBC Two TV programme Back In Time For Dinner, then Mary Gwynn's nostalgic book will be a real treat! It's full of fascinating facts about the food that nation has loved since the 1950s and what's come into - and gone out of - fashion." (BBC Easy Cook)

Descrizione del libro:

Companion to primetime BBC 2 series presented by Giles Coren with guest celebrities including (for eg) Mary Berry - a riveting combination of nostalgia and social history.

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• Editore: Bantam Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0593075242
• ISBN 13: 9780593075241
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 304