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Nigel Slater. Eating for England: The Delights and Eccentricities of the British at Table
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Contents
Preface
In a Stew
Harvest Festival
The Lunchbox
Toblerone
The Kitchen Fusspot
Black Pudding
Cake Forks and Sticky Fingers
Shopping on the Internet – Couch Potatoes
The Biscuit Tin
The Digestive
Bread and Butter Pudding
Eating Soldiers
Lunch on a Bench
Combating that Sinking Feeling
The Coffee Percolator
Faggots and Gravy
The Naked Cook
Murray Mints
The Farmers’ Market – An Allotment for Wimps
Rhubarb and Custard
Fruit and Nut
The Setting of Jam
Oxo Cubes
Feeding the Elderly
Custard
A Custard
The Economical Cook
The Voucher Queen
A Cake Walk through Britain
The Gingerbread Wars
Shopping for Meat
Toast – The Story of a Nation’s Hunger
Frogspawn and Nosebleeds
Stirring Jam into Your Rice Pudding – Or Not
The Nut Cutlet
A Child in the Restaurant – 1964
Toffees
The Midnight Feast
Jacob’s Club
Rubbernecking – The Lost Art of Celebrity-Spotting
The Wind in Your Face, a Fish in Your Bag
Summer Cooking
The Jaffa Cake
The Village Shop – The Font of All Knowledge and Fairy Soap
Tripe and Onions
Aga Toast
The Chocolate Digestive
The Rich Tea
Fudge
Ribena
Filling Your Bag
Old English Spangles
Fry’s Five Centres
Making Coffee
Breakfast
The Chocolate Bar – A Curiously British Obsession
‘My Name is Carol and I am a Chocoholic’
Your Life in Your Hands
Chopsticks at Dawn
Heinz Tomato Ketchup
Kia Ora
Tipping, as Only the Brits Know How
Jelly Babies
This Little Piggy
The Tight-Arse Cook
Washing Up
Mashed Swede
Ginger Cake
Cream Sponge
Eating in the Street – ‘I’ll Have That with Wings’
Throwing a Coffee Morning
The Cadbury’s Flake
A Teenager at the Table
Scones and the Sultana Problem
Bourbon Biscuits
Dairylea
Custard Creams
Modern Shopping
The Ritual of the KitKat
The Slightly Grubby Wholemeal Cook
Cyril’s Stew
Dripping – The Heart and Soul
A Taste of the Future
Floral Gums
Sherbet Lemons
Fray Bentos Steak-and-Kidney Pie
Eating Outdoors
Eating Pomegranates with a Pin
Mint Cracknel
Winter Food
The Jammie Dodger
Liquorice Sticks
Liquorice Wood
The Chocolate Finger and That One with the Hole In
A Good Roasting
Boiled Brussels Sprouts
Pontefract Cakes
Bath Chaps
Fancy Toast
White Food
Golden Mint Humbugs
Lardy Cake
The Expense Account Lunch
The Suburban Day Out Lunch
Quality Street
Branston Pickle
Paying the Price
A Third-Generation Fishmonger
The Work of Pixies
Gravy
The Extravagant Cook
That Old Black Magic
Brawn and Mustard
Trifle – A Social Indicator
The Best Biscuit of All?
Chocolate Limes
Sharing the Bill – The Weasel at the Table
Sweetness and Light
Scones on Harris
PG Tips
Robertson’s Golden Shred
The Specialist Shop
The Case for Clicks not Bricks
Frying Tonight
The Taste of the New
The Grow-Your-Own Cook
Pre-Jamie Man
Post-Jamie Man
If You Can’t Stand the Heat
Scratchings
Chocolate Éclairs
The Sweet Shop
The Berni Inn
Lunch
Crumpets, Pikelets, Muffins and Their Purpose
The Death of the Chocolate Cake
The Corner Shop – Our Little Life-Saver
Carving
Haggis, Tatties and Neeps
Gilding the Lily
Cake and Cheese
Everton Mints
Welsh Rarebit
Junket – The Clue is in the Name
Tunnock’s Teacakes
Poaching
The Cookery Hen
The Oh-I-Never-Measure-Anything Cook
How to Dress a Scone
Bisto
Colman’s Mustard
A Day at the Market
The British Lunch Out of Doors Then
The British Lunch Outdoors Now
A Litmus Test
The Victoria Sandwich
Gibbs After-Dinner Mints
The After Eight Mint
The Glorious British Chocolate Bar
Rest in Peace
The Supermarket Fish Shame
The Greengrocer – A Local Hero
A Nation of Old Boilers
Hotel Toast
Dick and Other Delights
Dead Man’s Leg
The Glue Factor
The Gingernut
Pear Drops
Acid Drops
Aniseed Balls
Butterscotch
A Drop or Two of Sauce
Midget Gems
Winter Teas – The Crumpet Season
A Muffin Worry
How to Open an English Muffin
A Log Fire Tea – Some Suggestions
Cupcakes at the Hummingbird
High Tea
The Packed Lunch
Werther’s Originals
The Polo Mint
Camp Coffee
Robinson’s Barley Water
Out of a Net and onto the Net
Marmite
The Organic Box
The Neat and Tidy Cook
The Cool, Modern Shopper Cook
‘Hands that Do Dishes’
Things Move On
The Death of the Cheese Board
Thick Toast
Best Friends
Treacle Tart
Coconut Ice
The Cream Cracker
Barley Sugars
Nut Toffee
Brown Sauce
Eating with the Wasps
A Summer Tea – A Few Polite Suggestions
Seaside Rock
A National Hero
Sarson’s Vinegar
The Pink Wafer
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