Crunch
the history of crisps
$25.48
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2025
Summary
Crunch: A Salty Love Affair with the Humble Crisp
We are a nation of crisp obsessives. Squashed into sandwiches on our lunch breaks and torn-open as centerpieces on pub tables, we buy tens of millions of packets every single day. But how did the humble potato snack become a national dish?
Crunch: An Ode to Crisps is journalist Natalie Whittle’s love letter to the salty siren. She traces their evolution from the simplicity of salt sachets in the early 20th century, t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780571384112 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0571384110 |
| Author: | Natalie Whittle |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 228g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
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Critics Review
‘It’s a triumph.’ - Nigella Lawson, Stocking Fillers 2024 list ‘This book is full of tasty morsels … A great present for the snacky gourmand.’ - Pandora Sykes ‘An absolute tour de force … I devoured it until the very last crumb and then licked the packet.’ - Felicity Cloake
About The Author
Natalie Whittle
Natalie Whittle is a writer and editor based in Glasgow. Born and raised in South Wales, she read English Literature at University College London, and lived in Paris for three years working as a Time Out Paris journalist. She worked for 15 years at the Financial Times in London, where she held editing roles across the magazine and arts sections of FT Weekend. As the FT’s food and drink editor, she won an award from the Guild of Food Writers in 2015 and also collaborated with Penguin Random House to produce a compilation of the FT’s gastronomic interviews, ‘Lunch with the FT: A Second Helping’ in 2019.
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