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APPLE ORCHARD THE STORY OF OUR MOST ENGLISH FRUIT firm sale by BROWN PETE
Category: Home and Garden
Through the seasons in England's apple-growing heartlands, Pete Brown uncovers the magic and folklore or our most familiar fruit, showing its place at the heart of our lives. 'An orchard is not a field. It's not a forest or a copse. It couldn't occur naturally; it's definitely cultivated. But an orchar ...Show more
Clubland: How the Working Men's Club Shaped Britain by Pete Brown
Category: European History
'Brilliant.' Alan Johnson 'Compelling.' David Kynaston 'The beer drinkers' Bill Bryson.' Times Literary Supplement The untold story of a British institution. Pete Brown is a convivial guide on this journey through the intoxicating history of the working men's clubs. From the movement's foundin ...Show more
Clubland: How the Working Men's Club Shaped Britain by Pete Brown
Category: History
The untold story of a British institution 'Brilliant.' Alan Johnson 'Compelling.' David Kynaston 'The beer drinkers' Bill Bryson.' Times Literary Supplement Ferment Magazine's Best Beer Book of the Year Pete Brown is a convivial guide on this journey through the intoxicating history of the working me ...Show more
Hops and Glory: One Man's Search for the Beer That Built the British Empire by Pete Brown
Category: Food and Drink
India Pale Ale is pure gold in a glass: a semi-mythical beer that was specially invented, in the 18th Century, to travel half way around the world, through storms and tropical sunshine, and arrive in perfect condition for a long, cold drink on an Indian verandah. For the men and women of the British Raj ...Show more
Pie Fidelity - In Defence of British Food by Pete Brown
Category: Cook Books
In Britain, we have always had an awkward relationship with food. We've been told for so long that we are terrible cooks and yet according to a recent YouGov survey, our traditional food and drink are more important than the monarchy and at least as significant as our landscape and national monuments in ...Show more
The Apple Orchard: The Story of Our Most English Fruit by Pete Brown
Category: Gardening
'An absorbing love letter to the English apple tree...lyrical and joyful' - TLS 'A delightful book' - Sunday Times Shortlisted for the Andre Simon Food and Drink Book Award 2016 A Radio 4 Book of the Week 'Wonderful, revelatory ...very moving' - Sheila Dillon, BBC Radio 4 'His ability to laugh at himsel ...Show more
World's Best Cider: Taste, Tradition and Terroir, from Somerset to Seattle by Pete Brown
Category: Cooking
World's Best Ciders is the first book to showcase the world of cider, from its origins as a thirst-quencher for farm workers to its present as a rival to champagne. Travelling from the Old to the New World and teaching us not only how to taste it but how to cook with it, Pete Brown and Bill Bradshaw exp ...Show more
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