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An intimate cookbook exploring 200 years of British royal food, studded with anecdotes, delectable tidbits, and nuggets of history, featuring 100 accessible recipes from award-winning food writer Tom Parker Bowles. In Cooking and the Crown: Royal Recipes from Queen Victoria to King Charles III, Tom Parker Bowles, award-winning food writer, restaurant critic, and son of Queen Camilla, blends history, monarchy, and gastronomy to provide a fascinating window into the world of royal tastes and traditions as far back as Victorian times.. Cooking and the Crown showcases an abundance of beloved royal recipes for all seasons, everyday occasions, and celebrations of all kinds, from breakfasts, picnic lunches and dinners to coronations and state banquets, including: * Breakfast: Queen Camilla's Porridge, Herrings Fried in Oatmeal and Kedgeree* Lunch: George V's Curry, Buckingham Palace Mutton Pies* Tea: Queen Mary's Birthday Cake, Sandwiches a la Regance, and Welsh Teabread* Dinner: The King's Wet Martini, Sardine Diable Savouries* Dessert: Bombe Glacée Princess Elizabeth.