From Boiled Beef to Chicken Tikka

Including recipes, this book “takes a different look at military history but one every bit as relevant as any blood and guts campaign study” (Britain at War). Janet Macdonald, author of the acclaimed Feeding Nelson’s Navy , now turns her attention to food in the British Army over the past two centuries. Napoleon’s remark “an army marches on its stomach” has become an over-used cliché. It is a simple statement and undoubtedly true, but like many such simple statements, the actuality of what fills