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Award-winning investigative food journalist, Joanne Blythman turns her attention to the current hot topic – the state of British food.What is it about the British and food? We just don’t get it, do we? Britain is notorious worldwide for its bad food and increasingly corpulent population but it’s a habit we just can’t seem to kick.Welcome to the country where recipe and diet books feature constantly in top 10 bestseller lists but where the average meal takes only eight minutes to prepare and people spend more time watching celebrity chefs cooking on TV than doing any cooking themselves, the country where a dining room table is increasingly becoming an optional item of furniture. Welcome to the nation that is almost pathologically obsessed with the safety and provenance of food but which relies on factory-prepared ready meals for sustenance, eating four times more of them than any other country in Europe, the country that never has its greasy fingers out of a packet of crisps, consuming more than the rest of Europe put together. Welcome to the affluent land where children eat food that is more nutririonally impoverished than their counterparts in South African townships, the country where hospitals can sell fast-food burgers but not home-baked cake, the G8 state where even the Prime Minister refuses to eat broccoli.Award-winning investigative food journalist Joanna Blythman takes us on an amusing, perceptive and subversive journey through Britain's contemporary food landscape and traces the roots of our contemporary food troubles in deeply engrained ideas about class, modernity and progress.

His to tame…The Rake’s Ruined LadyBeatrice Dewey has had rotten luck when it comes to men – her first love, Hugh Kendrick, is lost to her forever and now her new fiance has cancelled their wedding! Suddenly Hugh returns trailing rumours of illicit affairs. Beatrice is amazed when the dashing rake greets her with a public, very passionate kiss. If she succumbs to his skilful seduction, surely it is the ultimate road to ruin…Tarnished, Tempted and TamedAfter being kidnapped by highwaymen, Fiona Chapman is a tarnished woman or so the gossips have it. Nevertheless, she's not about to succumb to the seduction of her rescuer, Major Luke Wolfson. After all, isn't he one of her abductors' cohorts? She won’t submit and become his, not unless he’s prepared to make a more honourable proposal!

The Lady in RedViscount Winterton abducts a woman to protect her—but he kidnaps the wrong girl in red! The scandalous carriage dash leads to the ruin of Lady Florentia Hale-Burton’s reputation…and the Viscount’s apparent demise.Years later, Flora discovers her kidnapper is alive and as entrancingly handsome as she remembers! Disguised, she agrees to paint his portrait in an attempt to understand the man who’s haunted her fantasies. Is it revenge that has brought her this close to him again . . . or something even more reckless?