Hardcover. White board with blue title and portrait of the author.

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For conditions, please view our photographs. A nice clean rare copy from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG. Jack founded the Midsummer House, Cambridge’s paramount restaurant. This dining experience is hidden amongst the grassy pastures and grazing cattle of Midsummer Common and perched on the banks of the River Cam. 

Join Clarissa on a culinary journey through Scotland’s past. Authentic recipes are brought to life with anecdotes and artefacts from history. Discover the dishes relished by Romans and royalty, authors and poets, highlanders and islanders, and see just how well our ancestors ate. Clarissa says in her Introduction: ‘This book is by no means exhaustive. It is an amuse-rule to tempt you, and show you that our ancestors ate good and interesting food…It is a historic taster into which you can dip for a feel of the country through the ages, whether the high life of Mary Stuart, the simple croft, the Age of Enlightenment, or the deep-fried Mars Bar of today.’

Review: Wonderful read and full of delicious food. The author makes me want to try and recreate the dishes since her love of Scotland shines through in her writing and description of the countryside, the dishes, and the history presented in the book. I make oatcakes regularly now and it’s one of my favorite recipes.