About the Book: Leftovers: A History of Food Waste and Preservation
'Bingeable The Telegraph
'A book for our time The Spectator
' Barnetts an indefatigable researcher The Mail on Sunday
A richly entertaining and topical history of food preservation and waste in
Britain from the Elizabethan kitchen to the present day.
At a time when a third of the food we produce globally is wasted, Eleanor
Barnett opens a window on the everyday experiences of ordinary people in the
past to reveal how factors such as religion, class and gender have historically
shaped attitudes towards food waste.
Leftovers deploys a