World of Food

What did the ancient Romans snack on?
Where does chocolate come from?
And how has the humble potato shaped history?
There is a whole world of food to discover!

Everywhere on our planet where people can be found, there are different foods that we enjoy, and different ways of preparing and eating them, too. From fruits, vegetables, cheeses and grains to spices, honey, chocolate and foods of the future, find out where foods come from, and what we grow, farm, forage and cook in order to eat. Explore more than 100 dishes and food traditions from every corner of the globe, and what people ate for lunch 5,000 years ago. Roasted hedgehog, anyone?

Bursting with colour and fascinating facts, the World of... looks at what we have in common, and celebrates our differences.

Sandra Lawrence (Author)
Sandra Lawrence is an author and journalist from London. Sandra has written for all the broadsheets and regularly contributes features to the Daily and Sunday Telegraph. She has also written for magazines, including Marie Claire and Country Life. Her children's books include The Anthology of Amazing Women (Templar) and the internationally bestselling The Atlas of Monsters (Templar).

Violeta Noy (Illustrator)
Violeta is an illustrator from Barcelona who makes books, prints and websites. She studied Fine Art at Universitat de Barcelona and has an Illustration MA from Falmouth University. Her first picture book The Right One was published by Templar in 2018. Violeta collaborates with Nuria Pla under the name of Tandem.

She is also scared of outer space and the deep sea.

A colourful celebration of food What did the ancient Romans snack on? Where does chocolate come from? And how has the humble potato shaped history? There is a whole world of food to discover! Everywhere on our planet where people can be found, there are different foods that we enjoy, and different ways of preparing and eating them, too. From fruits, vegetables, cheeses and grains to spices, honey, chocolate and foods of the future, find out where foods come from, and what we grow, farm, forage and cook in order to eat. Explore more than 100 dishes and food traditions from every corner of the globe, and what people ate for lunch 5,000 years ago. Roasted hedgehog, anyone? Bursting with colour and fascinating facts, the World of... looks at what we have in common, and celebrates our differences.

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