Pie Fidelity

'Funny, informative, a love poem to all that's great in British cooking... from the humble cheese sandwich, through fish and chips and curry,to the ubiquitous Sunday roast ... Part Nigel Slater, part Bill Bryson,and wholly delicious' Michael Simkins, Mail on Sunday

A journey through British food, from the acclaimed author of The Apple Orchard

In Britain, we have always had an awkward relationship with food. We'vebeen told for so long that we are terrible cooks and yet when someonewith a clipboard asks us what the best things are about being British,our traditional food and drink are more important than the monarchy andat least as significant as our landscape and national monuments indefining a collective notion of who we are.

Taking ninearchetypically British dishes - Pie and Peas, A Cheese Sandwich, Fishand Chips, Spag Bol, Devonshire Cream Tea, Curry, The Full English, TheSunday Roast and a Crumble with Custard - and enjoying them in theirmost typical settings, Pete Brown examines just how fundamental food isto our sense of identity, perhaps even our sense of pride, and the waysin which we understand our place in the world.

Reviews

[Praise for The Apple Orchard] Delightful... impassioned, patriotic, richly informed