Feast of Folklore

Ben Gazur has a PhD in Biochemistry but has given up the glitz and glamour of life in the laboratory for a career as a writer. He has written about everything from Mudlarking for Mental Floss to terrible TV for the Guardian. His work has also appeared in All About History, i-D, the BBC and Fortean Times. He has written three books, Epicurus and his Influence on History, Strangest Deaths in History and A Feast of Folklore. He lives in London.

'Excellent. Cannot wait to get stuck in' Tom Parker Bowles'I’ll be raiding this Wonder Pantry of a book for years to come. . . . Diverting, delightful and deliciously weird enough to satisfy the most demanding appetite' Christopher Hadley, author of The Road‘Gazur’s witty and engaging exploration of food-related rituals, remedies and superstitions will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about your dinner plate’ Dee Dee Chainey, author of A Treasury of British Folklore‘One of those gems of a book that keeps you up long into the night because you just want to read “one more page” before putting it down’ Willow Winsham, author of Treasury of Folklore: Stars and Skies‘Well researched and presented in a light and most digestible manner, this is a must read the next time you are sitting down to a sausage roll’ Max Miller, creator of Tasting History‘Ben Gazur has categorised the folklore of food under neat, easily accessible headings, turning it into a proper genre, opposed to a tagged on history’ Emma Kay, food historian, author and broadcaster'Endlessly informative and leaning hard into the British Isles’ reputation for the off-beat, this is a delight' Publisher's Weekly