Feeding Nelson's Navy: The True Story of Food at Sea in the Georgian Era

The author of How to Cook from A-Z disproves the myth of British navy culinary misconduct in "a work of serious history that is a delight to read" (British Food in America).

This celebration of the Georgian sailor's diet reveals how the navy's administrators fed a fleet of more than 150,000 men, in ships that were often at sea for months on end and that had no recourse to either refrigeration or canning. Contrary to the prevailing image of rotten meat and weevily biscuits, their diet was ...