Where has all the good food gone? This is the question at the heart of Mallet's provocative and evocative account of the fate of food. In the last 50 years we have gone from loving food to fearing it. We have become frightened by food science and spooked by medical doctors, and as a result old familiar foods and recipes, the threads of community, are being lost. Lingering over sensual memories of forgotten taste, Mallet traces the vicissitudes of five popular foods, their history and their predicament...