Shortlisted for the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards 2022 in the Food Book category.

Learn how flour and water were revolutionized as you pore over different pasta and noodle shapes, discover how cheese is made, find out why onions make you cry and marvel at nature’s ingenuity as you take a bite from eighteen varieties of apples and pears.

Split into digestible chapters, this visual guide explores the journey from farm to table, letting you taste your way around the world from the comfort of home.

Prizes

Short-listed for Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards- Food Book Category 2022 (UK)

''The most enchantingly beautiful encyclopeadia of food: so much to look at; so much to learn' -Nigella Lawson

LAURA GLADWIN trained at Leith’s School of Food and Wine before working as a freelance chef. She then spent five years at one of London's biggest party design companies, where she devised spectacular cocktail lists for more than 500 events. She now works as a writer and editor specialising in food and drink, writing for the Good Food Guide and editing high-profile cookery books for chefs including Ferran Adrià, René Redzepi and Heston Blumenthal.

ZOE BARKER is an illustrator gifted with powers of visual trickery, using watercolour washes and intricately textured graphite to create portraits, still-lifes and character designs that convey impressive visual depth. She lives in London where her clients include Soho House, Ralph Lauren and Liberty of London.