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Where has all the good food gone? This is the question at the heart of Gina Mallet's provocative and evocative account of the fate of food. Over the course of the last 50 years, we have gone from loving food to fearing it. We have become frightened by food science and spooked by medical doctors, and so old familiar foods and recipes - the threads of community - are being lost. Lingering over sensual memories of forgotten taste, Mallet traces the vicissitudes of five popular foods, their history and their predicament: how the egg that made the souffl supreme has been brought near to extinction by science and pathogen; how the war against bacteria is widening the cultural gulf between Europe and America, and endangering raw milk cheese; how beef has now been humbled by disease; why we can't grow a hundred varieties of peas the way the Victorian gardeners did, and why the tomato is surviving technology while the apple is dying in the West; and how fish are vanishing - just as we were relearning how to cook them properly. Mallet grew up in a hamlet with her family in the English countryside after the Second World War, and afterwards they moved to an apartment above Harrods. Although food was scarce in England in the era of wartime rationing and shortages, Mallet never forgot the tastes of her childhood.
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"'Buy this book. Buy several copies and give them to your friends. Passionate, entertaining, profoundly knowledgeable . . . ignore it at your peril' - Daily Mail"
"'Mallet unlocks a wonderful world of domestic memoir, handled (doubtless like her pastry) with a featherlight touch' - The Guardian"
"Virtually every page contains something that has you cheering' - The Independent"
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"'Mallet unlocks a wonderful world of domestic memoir, handled (doubtless like her pastry) with a featherlight touch' - The Guardian"
"Virtually every page contains something that has you cheering' - The Independent"
Gina Mallet is right about absolutely everything. Part explanation, part memoir, part manifesto, Last Chance to Eat explains where it all went wrong - and what we can do about it' - Anthony Bourdain, author of Kitchen Confidential
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- PublisherMainstream Publishing
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1840189606
- ISBN 13 9781840189605
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages255
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