'Revolting Recipes is a fascinating book, well researched and very detailed. The book shows the often perilous and hilarious history of food production. Seren explores everything from the origins of tinning and blood consumption to insects as food and extinction by gluttony. You will learn about the deadly mistakes made in early meat conservation and how it gave rise to the tinned food we are familiar with today. The author explores the move to deboned, prepackaged meats far removed from the animals they came from, and how that makes us less likely to eat intestines and cuts of meat like cheek and tongue. Throughout the factual information, is recipes of some of the dishes, such as head cheese, penis stew, boiled tongue, and cows udders. Despite my experience in disgusting food, I learned a lot of new things from this book.'
Andreas Ahrens, Museum Director, Disgusting Food Museum.

The Tudor period has long gripped our imaginations. Because we have consumed so many costume dramas on TV and film, read so many histories, factual or romanticised, we think we know how this society operated. We know they ‘did’ romance but how did they do sex? Most of us know a reasonable amount of history , especially when it comes to the Tudors , but how many of us have an insight to what used to happen ' under the covers ' as it were. An interesting book on what sex was like for those born at that time.
NetGalley, Angela Thompson

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I would recommend this book to all those interested in the Tudor period, but not only those interested in the Tudor monarchy. This book will appeal to those interested in the Tudor fleet and detail of the ship building of the time. It is a book that is easy to dip into or use as a reference book, as each object, event is described in a separate chapter. Highly recommended!
Alison Wall, Local history/ nursing and public health groups

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The Bookseller