Full of original research, Annie Gray's first book considers Britain's most iconic monarch from a new perspective, telling the history of British dining culture along the way.
Annie Gray is an historian, cook, broadcaster and writer specialising in the history of food and dining in Britain from around 1600 to the present day, conducting her research both in libraries and in kitchens. She has worked at Audley End amongst other historical kitchens, and gives lectures all over the country. She lives in East Anglia.
Had me at the first sentence
*Nigel Slater*
Zingy, fresh, and unexpected: Annie Gray, the queen of food
historians, finds her perfect subject. A book to devour
*Lucy Worsley*
Annie Gray is a brilliant writer and scholar who brings a glorious
combination of enthusiasm and greed to every subject she tackles.
In the field of food history she leads the pack.
*Jay Rayner*
In this wonderfully researched and entertaining book, Gray uncovers
a slice of royal history which until now has been completely
ignored.
*Spectator*
[A] delicious portrait
*Mail on Sunday*
'The best - and most popular - rooms in any National Trust property
are always the kitchens. It is there, rather than the grand
staterooms, that we are able to visualise what life was really like
in the past. In The Greedy Queen Annie Gray replicates those
kitchens in book form, conjuring up for her readers both the
elaborate banquets and the quiet family dinners of Queen Victoria
and her household. Never has history seemed quite as delicious as
in these pages.'
*Judith Flanders*
I'm avid to tuck in.
*Guardian 2017 non-fiction picks*
One of the most fascinating royal biographies I have read ...
Culinary biography is a relatively undersubscribed genre, but this
biographer and subject show off its great potential ... Gray writes
with great authority, verve and confidence
*Times*
Gray does an excellent job ... This is fascinating material,
extracted from the archives by some fine forensic reading.
*TLS*
If we are what we eat, then what was Victoria? This brilliant first
book by Annie Gray wastes no time in telling us ... Gray's oeuvre
is deeply satisfying ... her tone is lively, her pace jaunty.
*Herald*
Bursting with original research, The Greedy Queen looks at the
monarch from a new perspective, telling the story of British food
along the way.
*Majesty Magazine*
Written with great affection, it reveals a queen full of paradoxes,
cosseted from real life but with a hearty appetite and startling
joie de vivre alongside bouts of grief-stricken melancholy. A real
feast.
*WI Life*
I love a good historical non-fiction read and the topic of food
lends itself so well to this genre. In this beautifully researched
book, Annie Gray explains how food culture changed during
Victoria's long reign, the difference in diet between the queen and
her poorest subjects and even what she ate to cure her of
constipation (rhubarb, if you must know.) A fascinating read.
*Red*
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