Cultural studies: food and society

The Heart-Shaped Tin: Love, Loss and Kitchen Objects

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‘Bee Wilson is one of my favourite writers and this may be her best book’ CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN

This strikingly original account from award-winning food writer Bee Wilson charts how everyday objects take on deeply personal meanings in all our lives.

Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger

Winner of the British Book Awards Biography of the Year

Nigel Slater’s bestselling memoir of a childhood remembered through food, featuring a new introduction from Elizabeth Day, photographs and an additional final chapter.

Under the Henfluence: The World of Chickens and the People Who Love Them

‘Share[s] the life-enhancing joys of the humble hen’ Sunday Times

‘Clocks our obsession with chicken-keeping … Brilliant’ New York Magazine

An immersive blend of chicken-keeping memoir and animal welfare reporting by a journalist who accidentally became obsessed with her flock.

Frontières: A chef’s celebration of French cooking; this new cookbook is packed with simple hearty recipes and stories from France’s borderlands – Alsace, the Riviera, the Alps, the Southwest and North Africa

2024 WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL/REGIONAL COOKBOOK GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS AWARD

Shortlisted for Fortnum & Mason Cookery Book of the Year

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‘This book is a delightful new addition to a most distinguished company of cooks and writers, bravo Alex.’ — Jeremy Lee

Cake: A Slice of British Life

‘A delightful odyssey through the history, nostalgia, fascination and British love of cake. Quirky, charming, and fun.’ PRUE LEITH

Imad’s Syrian Kitchen

A bustling, vibrant tour of flavour-packed Syrian dishes

90 sensational recipes celebrating the flavours of Syria, that can easily be made in the comfort of your own home

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