A review by mogreig
Stuffed: A History of Good Food and Hard Times in Britain by Pen Vogler

4.0

Following on from her previous book Scoff, Stuffed is equally as good. Well researched, how food and Englishness are intertwined. The power of food or how food is used as power, I'm not sure which. Victorian times when children were denied decent food by virtue of being a child. Has it improved? No England has more children living in poverty than ever before. How govt have to be pushed into feeding their children eg footballer Marcus Rashford embarrassed the govt into supplying children with school meals during the holidays. Times when food was good and wholesome, then the opposite. When foods were adulterated with life threatening additives to modern times with over processed foods where we have no idea what is being added. A look over a thousand years and I don't feel reassured that we have learned very much.
Recommended read.