SCOFF: A HISTORY OF FOOD AND CLASS IN BRITAIN – PENELOPE VOGLER IN CONVERSATION WITH SAVILIAN DAVID OLDROYD-BOLT

Avocado or beans on toast? Nut roast or game pie? Pen Vogler reveals the fascinating history of British eating habits, and how they are loaded with centuries of aspiration and prejudice.

Do you have tea, dinner or supper in the evening? What do fish knives and the origin of breakfast have to do with social class in Great Britain? As a nation, we have become experts at using eating habits to make judgements about social background. Join food historian Pen Vogler in conversation with David Oldroyd-Bolt to find out how.

Bringing together evidence from cookbooks, literature, artworks and social records from 1066 to the present, Pen will trace the changing fortunes of the food we encounter today, and unpick the aspirations and prejudices of the people who have shaped our cuisine for better or worse.

Our Chef, Michael James, has created a special menu for the event based on the historic recipes found by Pen Vogler for this book.