Jacqui Wood. Tasting the Past: Recipes from Antiquity. African Diaspora in vivid style

in vivid style

challenge the expected with their surprising components and her signature creative plating

Victorian instructions on how to make cream cheese

in which vegetables play the starring role

The food is clear and inviting

Jacqui Wood. Tasting the Past: Recipes from Antiquity. African Diaspora in vivid styleThe many influences of the past on our diet today make the concept of "British food" very hard to define. The Celts, Romans, Saxons, Vikings, and Normans all brought ingredients to the table, as it were, and onwards the Crusades spread all manner of spices. The Georgians enjoyed a new level of excess, and then of course the world wars forced everyone into the challenge of making meals from very little. The post war period brought convenience foods,