Consider the Fork
  • Published: 2 January 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141049083
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $24.99

Consider the Fork

A History of How We Cook and Eat

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21 Nov 2012
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2 Jan 2014
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A delightful and acclaimed exploration of how the implements we use in the kitchen shape the way we cook

This is the story of how we have tamed fire and ice, wielded whisks, spoons, graters, mashers, pestles and mortars, all in the name of feeding ourselves. Bee Wilson takes us on an enchanting culinary journey through the incredible creations, inventions and obsessions that have shaped how and what we cook. From huge Tudor open fires to sous-vide machines, the birth of the fork to Roman gadgets, Consider the Fork is the previously unsung history of our kitchens.
  • Published: 2 January 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141049083
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $24.99
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Praise for Consider the Fork

A cracking good read, as enjoyable as it is enlightening

Raymond Blanc, Chef-Patron 'Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons'

Wonderful ... Witty, scholarly, utterly absorbing and fired by infectious curiosity

Lucy Lethbridge, Observer

[A] delightfully informative history of cooking and eating from the prehistoric discovery of fire to twenty-first-century high-tech, low-temp soud-vide-style cookery

ELLE magazine

A graceful study

Steven Poole, Guardian
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