Charlemagne's Tablecloth: A Piquant History of Feasting - Softcover

Nibble your way through four millennia of courses. I ... enjoyed it so much it became my book-with-lunch... The best entries are less about food than its pyschological power. (GUARDIAN)

Nichola Fletcher's text is stuffed to bursting with exotic tastes and smells, many of them heavy with religious or symbolic significance. (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)

Fletcher's selection of feasts has been short listed for a Guild of Food Writers award, and it is easy to see why... Fletcher's book will appeal to anyone who feels passionately about food. (HERALD)

A history of feasting from medieval banquets to the millennium New Year