Leftovers: A History of Food Waste and Preservation

'Bingeable' – The Telegraph
'A book for our time' – The Spectator
'[Barnett's] 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...