This is frankly a book of prejudices,’ thunders P. Morton Shand in the preface to his 1927 classic A Book Of Food, ‘for all food is a question of likes and dislikes. One may be tolerant about religion, politics, and a hundred and one other things, but not about the food one eats.’ Amen to that.
Because there is nothing more personal and subjective than what you put into your mouth. One man’s honey is another man’s tripe, and your choice of food is an insight into your very soul.
‘Tell me what you eat,’ declared Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French lawyer, politician
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