Prologue: The Staff of Life | p. 3 |
Prehistory | |
The Kittiwake at Danebury | p. 7 |
Roman Britain | |
Conspicuous Culinary Consumption | p. 17 |
Liquamen | p. 29 |
The Raider Centuries | |
An Art in Peril | p. 35 |
Medieval Britain | |
'Newe Conceytes' | p. 47 |
Feasts and Fasts | p. 62 |
Hospitality | p. 72 |
Pastry | p. 80 |
The Tudors | |
Strange Vegetables, New Tastes | p. 87 |
'Sugar Never Marred Sawce' | p. 102 |
The English Huswife | p. 112 |
Blessed Puddings | p. 122 |
The Stuarts | |
Mad Master Cooks | p. 129 |
The Commonwealth and Protectorate | |
Unhappy Times | p. 141 |
The Restoration | |
A La Mode | p. 153 |
Chefs and Sweethearts | p. 164 |
Ice | p. 177 |
William and Mary, Anne, and the Hanoverians | |
Human Nature | p. 185 |
Good Gravy and Hooped Petticoats | p. 198 |
Brave Stomachs | p. 211 |
Drunkenness | p. 221 |
Taste | p. 225 |
The Long Regency | |
Mad for Innovation | p. 239 |
A La Russe | p. 251 |
Painting the Lamb, Roasting the Mutton | p. 257 |
The Victorians | |
The Great Laboratory | p. 275 |
Poverty's Larder | p. 288 |
The Flight to Gentility, or Living for Appearances | p. 293 |
The Twentieth Century | |
Raging Inequalities and the Taste of War | p. 311 |
Fleeting Fortunes and Discontented Domestics | p. 323 |
Waste the Food, Help the Hun! | p. 338 |
Learning to Walk, Loving to Run | p. 345 |
'What I Myself Have Learned ...' | p. 359 |
'Cuisine Poseur' | p. 370 |
A Note on Measures | p. 377 |
Sites and Houses | p. 379 |
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