Cooking and Dining in Medieval England

by Peter Brears

This book acts as a foundation for any further research in British food history. Brears looked at the period after the Norman Conquest through to the rise of the Tudors in a way which no one else has ever done. He’s done his own investigations of medieval castles and manor houses, where he’s scratched around and found many forgotten and overlooked domestic features. He deserved to get the André Simon award for the extraordinary research that it’s based on.