REVIEW: Good Taste by Caroline Scott

You can tell a lot about a person from what they like to eat…

England in 1932 is in the grip of the Great Depression. Author of a much-loved but not very successful biography, Stella Douglas is a bit depressed herself. When she’s summoned to see her editor in London, she dreads being told her writing career is over before it’s even started.

But much to her surprise, she finds she is being commissioned to write a history of food in England and how the English like to eat. It’s to be quintessent...