Food of the Cods, written by Daniel Gray.
Published by Harper Collins 2023
This book continues my chip obsession and is written by Daniel Gray, a well known writer of books with a social or regional content. They are written well, enabling you to fully visualise what he is seeing, often in an amusing and informative style. Much of his writing is about football and his books are among my favourites. Daniel Gray is also the Editor of Nutmeg, ‘The Scottish Football Quarterly’, whose commentary on Scotland’s football scene cannot be missed.
The book is an investigation into the delights of fish and chips as he ventures across Britain. It explains the regional variations and the history behind their mass appeal. Telling the struggles of immigrants to bring this typically British food to our tables, or open, and how women’s emancipation was helped by them. The delights of the condiments that accompany them and scraps/sprinkles or none, I didn’t know that they had orange chips in Wolverhampton. This 176 page book is very easy and quick reading and is just right for a holiday or a journey read.
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