Greedy Queen 9781781256824

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Автор: Gray Annie
Название: Greedy Queen
ISBN: 9781781256824
Издательство: Profile
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История Британии и Ирландии

История нового времени до 20 века: с 1700 по 1900

Социальная история и история культуры

Питание и общество

ISBN-10: 1781256829
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 400
Вес: 0.57 кг.
Дата издания: 11.05.2017
Иллюстрации: 16pp plate section
Размер: 146 x 223 x 41
Читательская аудитория: Tertiary education (us: college)
Подзаголовок: Eating with victoria
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: From Dr Annie Gray, presenter of BBC2s Victorian Bakers and The Confectioners, coming summer 2017What does it mean to eat like a queen? Elizabeth gorged on sugar, Mary on chocolate and Anne was known as Brandy Nan. Victoria ate all of this and more. The Greedy Queen celebrates Victorias appetite, both for food and, indeed, for life.

Born in May 1819, Victoria came as plump as a partridge. In her early years she lived on milk and bread under the Kensington system; in her old age she suffered constant indigestion yet continued to over-eat. From intimate breakfasts with the King of France, to romping at tea-parties with her children, and from state balls to her last sip of milk, her life is examined through what she ate, when and with whom.

In the royal household, Victoria was surrounded by ladies-in-waiting, secretaries, dressers and coachmen, but below stairs there was another category of servant: her cooks. More fundamental and yet completely hidden, they are now uncovered in their working environment for the first time. Voracious and adventurous in her tastes, Queen Victoria was head of state during a revolution in how we ate - from the highest tables to the most humble.

Bursting with original research, The Greedy Queen considers Britains most iconic monarch from a new perspective, telling the story of British food along the way.

Greedy Queen, Gray Annie