Food and Cooking in Viking Times

by Clive Gifford, Paul Cherrill (Illustrator)

The Vikings were Scandinavian explorers and warriors who worked up quite an appetite while raiding and colonizing vast areas of Europe. Your readers can recreate the high-protein dishes of the Viking Age through this book of step-by-step recipes and fun, factual information about the culture of the Vikings.

Genres: History, Cookbooks

32 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2009

About the author

Clive Gifford is a highly experienced journalist and author with over 170 books published and more than 800 features and stories written for adults and children.

Clive is an unusual author who likes to work in both fiction and non-fiction. Perhaps this reflects his unusual life which, so far, has seen him travel to over 70 countries, be held hostage in Colombia, go parachuting, coach several sports and run a computer games company.

He says: "What drives me more than anything else is the desire to communicate, entertain and inform through the written word."

Reviews

[Amy Denim]

I learned a lot reading this book, and I thought I was pretty up on Viking culture from reading all those Sandra Hill novels. Wish there were a few more recipes in here though.