Repast: The Story of Food
Take a deliciously fascinating, expertly written global tour of cooking, eating and drinking through objects in the British Museum collection.
Our insatiable appetite for creativity in the kitchen – or around the open fire – is as old as time.
This new book, authored by food writer Jenny Linford in collaboration with experts at the British Museum, Repast focuses on artefacts in the Museum’s collection – from ancient clay cooking vessels to exquisite gold cups – spanning multiple continents and dating from prehistory to the modern day.
Beautifully illustrated throughout, Repast will engage and delight the growing audience interested in the history of food and drink.
The Great British Food Tour
Jump on board for a glorious gastronomical tour of Great Britain From regional specialities to national favourites, this book is packed with entertaining history, stories and facts about our wonderful foodscape.
From Bedfordshire Clangers to Black Buns, Jenny Linford charmingly tells the story of the familiar and forgotten British foods.
Xanthe Clay
Food writer and Telegraph columnist
The Kew Gardens Salad Book
The Kew Gardens Salad Book celebrates the rich possibilities that culinary plants and fungi offer in the kitchen through a diverse selection of flavoursome, satiating salad recipes.
Utilising a varied array of plant foods, author Jenny Linford enables and empowers readers to broaden their palates, improve their health, protect the environment and prevent biodiversity loss.
The variety of flavours and textures offered by edible plants is remarkable: the appealing freshness of leaves, the crunch of cabbage, the cheerful juiciness of tomatoes, the satisfying density of roots and squashes, the luscious sweetness of fruits, the fragrance of herbs and spices.
Jenny Linford
I’m a freelance food writer, a member of the Guild of Food Writers and author of fifteen books, ranging from cookery books to ingredient guides. Over the years I’ve written for a variety of publications, including The Guardian, Time Out’s Eating Out guides and The Times. My website work has included researching and writing for the British Library’s Food Stories website, a fascinating project using audio-clips from the Life Stories collection.
Born in London, my interest in food stems from living as a child in Singapore and Italy, places where good food is important to the community, both taken for granted and relished as a great pleasure.
I’m an inveterate food shopper, always on the look-out for ingredients to cook with or delicious things to eat, whether it be tangy barberries from an Iranian supermarket or a freshly baked barbecued pork bun from one of Chinatown’s bakeries. London’s fantastically diverse food scene offers constant inspiration for recipes, articles and books such as Food Lovers’ London and The London Cookbook.
In 2020, the Covid-19 crisis changed many aspects of our lives, including how we shopped for and consumed food. Beginning with my British Cheese Crisis piece – written off my own bat to highlight the disastrous situation facing British cheesemakers with the closure of hospitality which struck a remarkable chord with people – I’ve written a series of pieces exploring and charting through producers and retailers the impact of the pandemic on people in the British food scene.