British food has a reputation for being terrible, but barely 200 years ago it was credited with being the greatest cuisine in Europe. So what went wrong?
Jenni talks to Colin Spencer, author of British Food; An Extraordinary Thousand Years of History and Clarissa Hyman about how our tastes have changed, and how everything from the Reformation to the Civil War influenced what we ate.
British Food; An Extraordinary Thousand Years of History, published by Grub Street, ISBN 1-904010-70-9
