Josh Sutton – författare

''The perfect nostalgic Christmas gift.''The Famous Five were a clever lot: every island adventure and countryside romp began with a hearty breakfast, was interspersed with rollicking good picnics and ended with supper at Aunt Fanny''s - all washed down with lashings of ginger beer. Now you can revisit Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy''s favourite food and drink with these 80 recipes faithful to the books, accompanied by familiar illustrations and quotes from the stories.Featuring:- Chapter One: A Jolly Good Breakfast - e.g. fried bread and sausage sandwiches- Chapter Two: Perfect Picnics - e.g. sausage rolls, scotch eggs, jammy buns and drop scones- Chapter Three: Scrumptious Suppers - e.g. meat pie, chicken stew, milk pudding and marmalade apple pie - Chapter Four: Cracking Cakes and Tasty Treats - e.g. sticky gingerbread and mint humbugs- Chapter Five: Lashings of Delicious Drinks - e.g. orangeade and ginger beer

This book takes a look at food riots in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and food related social conflict, from the Newlyn fish riots to the Cod Wars. Using words and verse from contemporary broadside ballads and folk song, Josh Sutton looks closely at the evolution of the modern food system.

He suggests that the spirit of the food riot is still very much alive today, and is apparent in the practice of those engaged in providing food charity in modern Britain and in the United States, where food banks and recycling of supermarket waste are now common and vital.

This book sets out to investigate and celebrate a whole range of ovens, used and built the world over. By focusing on outdoor ovens, meaning those constructed or used outside of the home, as opposed to the average temperamental contraption found in most modern kitchens, we can learn about the people and communities that built and operated them. We know that people naturally gravitate towards a fire, and with a few recipes as well as instructions on how to build ovens, readers will warm to this book. If you can’t stand the heat, go al fresco!