Eating for England: The Delights and Eccentricities of the British at Table. Nigel Slater

      

      Eating for England

       The Delights and Eccentricities of the British at Table

      Nigel Slater

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      Fourth Estate

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      First published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate in 2007

      Copyright © Nigel Slater 2007

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      Source ISBN: 9780007199471

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      Version: 2016-09-22

      For D and P and in memory of M

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

      Copyright

      Preface

      In a Stew

      Harvest Festival

      The Lunchbox

      Toblerone

      The Kitchen Fusspot

Black Pudding

Cake Forks and Sticky Fingers

Shopping on the Internet – Couch Potatoes

The Biscuit Tin

The Digestive

Bread and Butter Pudding

Eating Soldiers

Lunch on a Bench

Combating that Sinking Feeling

The Coffee Percolator

Faggots and Gravy

The Naked Cook

Murray Mints

The Farmers’ Market – An Allotment for Wimps

Rhubarb and Custard

Fruit and Nut

The Setting of Jam

Oxo Cubes

Feeding the Elderly

Custard

A Custard

The Economical Cook

The Voucher Queen

A Cake Walk through Britain

The Gingerbread Wars

Shopping for Meat

Toast – The Story of a Nation’s Hunger

Frogspawn and Nosebleeds

Stirring Jam into Your Rice Pudding – Or Not

The Nut Cutlet

       A Child in the Restaurant – 1964

       Toffees

       The Midnight Feast

       Jacob’s Club

       Rubbernecking – The Lost Art of Celebrity-Spotting

       The Wind in Your Face, a Fish in Your Bag

       Summer Cooking

       The Jaffa Cake

       The Village Shop – The Font of All Knowledge and Fairy Soap

       Tripe and Onions

       Aga Toast

       The Chocolate Digestive

       The Rich Tea

       Fudge

       Ribena

       Filling Your Bag

       Old English Spangles

       Fry’s Five Centres

       Making Coffee

       Breakfast

       The Chocolate Bar – A Curiously British Obsession

       ‘My Name is Carol and I am a Chocoholic’

       Your Life in Your Hands

       Chopsticks at Dawn

       Heinz Tomato Ketchup

       Kia Ora

       Tipping, as Only the Brits Know How

       Jelly Babies

       This Little Piggy

       The Tight-Arse Cook

       Washing Up

       Mashed Swede

       Ginger Cake

       Cream Sponge

       Eating in the Street – ‘I’ll Have That with Wings’

       Throwing a Coffee Morning

       The Cadbury’s Flake

       A Teenager at the Table

       Scones and the Sultana Problem

       Bourbon Biscuits

       Dairylea

       Custard Creams

       Modern Shopping