Avocado or beans on toast? Nut roast or game pie? Pen Vogler reveals the fascinating history of British eating habits, and how they are loaded with centuries of aspiration and prejudice.

Do you have tea, dinner or supper in the evening? What do fish knives and the origin of breakfast have to do with social class in Great Britain? As a nation, we have become experts at using eating habits to make judgements about social background. Join food historian Pen Vogler to find out how.

In this livestream event, Pen will bring together evidence from cookbooks, literature, artworks and social records from 1066 to the present, Pen will trace the changing fortunes of the food we encounter today, and unpick the aspirations and prejudices of the people who have shaped our cuisine for better or worse.

Praise for Pen Vogler’s Scoff:

‘With commendable appetite and immense attention to detail Pen Vogler skewers the enduring relationship between class and food in Britain. A brilliant romp of a book that gets to the very heart of who we think we are, one delicious dish at a time.’ Jay Rayner

‘In Scoff, Pen shows us an insight into the background of our favourite British food traditions through the divide of class. How a poor man’s food moved to the posh dinner table and how British a curry really is. Illustrated by the words of much-loved English cookery writers and novelists, and Pen’s own witty style of writing, this book is an absolute gem to read.’ Regula Ysewijn