Leftovers A history of food waste and preservation
Book - 2024
"Here is a topical, informative, and entertaining history of food preservation and waste in Britain from the sixteenth-century kitchen to the emergence of food justice movements in the present day. By exploring the many ingenious ways in which our ancestors sought to extend the life of food, 'Leftovers' opens a window on the lives and values of ordinary people in the past, revealing how such factors as wealth, inequality and religious doctrine have shaped perceptions of food waste from Elizabethan times to the twenty-first century"--Publisher's description.
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- Subjects
- Published
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London :
Apollo
2024.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 375 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781803281575
- Introduction
- 1. Pickles and Piety
- 'The Accomplish'd Lady's Delight in Preserving'
- Salt, Pickles, Pies and Cheese
- The Pious Kitchen
- Working for Scraps
- 2. Muckhills, Skins and Entrails
- Pigs and Pudding-Pits
- Old Father Thames
- From Muckhills to Miasma
- Putrefied Bites
- 3. The World in a Tin Can
- The Invention of the Tin Can
- Going Global
- Stench and Scandal
- Shipping Surplus
- 4. Mrs Beeton and the Rag-and-Bone Man
- 'Specks' and Crumbs
- Buying and Scavenging
- Middle-Class Thrift
- New Thrift, New Waste
- 5. The Kitchen Front
- Rationing
- Doctor Carrot and Food Substitutes
- Salvaging Scraps
- Dig for Victory
- 6. McDonald's, Punks and Food Anarchists
- The New Environmentalist Movement
- McSpotlight
- Radical Reclamation
- Making it Mainstream
- 7. Food Waste in the Time of Coronavirus
- Leftovers in Lockdown
- Hunger and Help
- A Leaky Food Chain
- Brexit Bites
- Epilogue: A Food Waste-Free Future?
- 'A Rotten Apple Spoils the Barrel'
- AI Food Savers
- Fridges of the Future
- Upcycled Leftovers
- Conclusion: Back to the Future of Food Waste
- Timeline
- Acknowledgements
- Image Credits
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Index