Books by Peter Brears
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.
Interviews where books by Peter Brears were recommended
The best books on Historic Cooking, recommended by Ivan Day
Celebrated food historian selects five books on cooking that reveal much about our history. During the period that the French and English were at war, roast beef was all the rage and anything ‘Frenchified’ was suspect
