From Plain Fare to Fusion Food

An account of one hundred years of diet (including political influences) and its reflection in the population's health - from wartime deprivation to fast food overkill. Simple meals made from a limited range of industrially processed foodstuffs constituted the 'plain fare' which most people in Britain ate from the 1890s until after the Second World War. Dietary surveys show that when wages were low and social conditions poor, health was affected and support the view that malnutrition and dietary