Repast (British Museum)

‘Repast ranges around the world and through the British Museum to offer a global account of our complex relationship with food … Covering topics from the most ancient cooking utensils to our current interest in nose-to-tail eating, this beautiful book informs, surprises, and entertains in equal measure’ - Professor Rebecca Earle‘I can’t think of a better guide than Jenny Linford … as fresh and engaging as she is highly knowledgeable’ - Niki Segnit‘A wonderfully accessible and insightful read to be savoured. Five stars’ - All About History‘A rare beast; a coffee table book that’s compulsive reading. A thing of beauty … with gorgeous full-page illustrations. But it is far more than that. [Linford] is a skilful storyteller. Her whistlestop tour can convey more in one page than many food monographs in 300’ - The Spectator‘What an achievement … Repast’s depth and breadth – and beauty – is extraordinary. Every picture and object is a revelation’ - Pen Vogler, author of ‘Scoff’, a ‘Sunday Times’ History Book of the Year‘Scholarly, engaging, mouthwatering and often moving, Repast tells the millennia-long story of food, intertwined with, and beautifully illustrated by artefacts from the British Museum’s collection. Linford explores the relationship between food and religion, the culture of eating out and in, and the future of food in an uncertain world. An invaluable addition to the canon of food history, Repast is about more than food and drink, it’s about being human’ - Ned Palmer, author of the ‘Sunday Times’ bestseller ‘A Cheesemonger’s History of the British Isles’

Jenny Linford is a London-based food writer and a long-standing member of the Guild of Food Writers. She has written more than fifteen books, including The Missing Ingredient (2018), which explores time as the ‘universal, invisible ingredient’ in the food we grow, make and cook. She also produces and presents a cheese-centric podcast called ‘A Slice of Cheese’ for Food FM Radio.