Moveable Feasts: From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat

From the first to the twenty-first centuries, the things we eat and drink have crossed countries and continents before reaching our tables. They have travelled inside everything from wooden barrels and nineteenth-century tea clippers to refrigerated shipping containers and jet planes travelling at 500 miles an hour. Moreover, they have left a trail of footprints behind them, stirring economic, social and political change in their wake.

by Sarah Murray