(Paperback, Unabridged edition)

A riveting new biography - the first for thirty years - of the influential floral artist and founder of the Cordon Bleu cookery school

Stories from around the world of a history of food preservation. Resplendent with historical figures from Francis Bacon who died trying to freeze a chicken, to Attila the Hun who 'gallop-cured' his meat by storing it under his saddle as he rode, this is a social history of food and civilization.