Trifles have been a perennial of English summer lunches, tennis parties, and schoolboy dreams of plenty. The authors trace their origins to the earliest recipe of 1596 and its gradual transformation from a mere cooked cream to the many-layered custardy extravagance we know today.
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'Sparkles with anecdote and generous whippings of erudition', wrote Glen Baxter when nominating it as his book of the year in The Observer --Observer
'A knees-up romp through jelly, custard, whipped cream and nuts, as the authors dig greedily through layers of culinary archaeology.' Jill Dupleix --The Times
Alan Davidson, food historian, distinguished author, and publisher, is one of the world's best-known writers on fish and fish cookery. Among his popular books are North Atlantic Seafood and Mediterranean Seafood.
Alan Davidson is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Queensland.
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