The Storyteller's Supper
A Feast of Food Folk Tales
Published on 30. July 2021
Book
Hardback
128 pages
978-0-7509-9669-3 (ISBN)
Description
'You and me, me and you, we all bring something to the stew, From the tales we tell, to the food we've got, we all bring something to the pot.'
Over the last fifty years, Taffy Thomas has shared the stage with noted Lakeland chefs, who have tickled his palate with tastings and information about dishes and ingredients, which he uses to season these magical stories, telling the oral history of food.
This feast of traditional tales is spiced up with the rhymes and riddles that always enrich Taffy's work, as well as charming illustrations from artist Dotty Kultys, and will appeal to all who savour stories and food.
Over the last fifty years, Taffy Thomas has shared the stage with noted Lakeland chefs, who have tickled his palate with tastings and information about dishes and ingredients, which he uses to season these magical stories, telling the oral history of food.
This feast of traditional tales is spiced up with the rhymes and riddles that always enrich Taffy's work, as well as charming illustrations from artist Dotty Kultys, and will appeal to all who savour stories and food.
Reviews / Votes
'Taffy Thomas' The Storyteller's Supper: A Feast of Food Folk Tales is tasty reading with Slow Food Movement founder Carlo Petrini's foreword as appetiser and Dotty Kulty's colourful illustrations as seasoning.' * <i>Cumbria Life</i> magazine *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
16 Plates, color; 15 Illustrations, color; 30 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
266 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7509-9669-3 (9780750996693)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
E-Book
07/2021
The History Press Ltd
€8.99
Available for download
Persons
TAFFY THOMAS is a professional storyteller who gives around 300 storytelling performances across the country each year. One of the UK's most loved storytellers, he was made an MBE in the 2000 New Year's Honours List for services to storytelling and charity. In 2000-2011 he became the first laureate for storytelling, a role created to promote the power of stories. Taffy is the artistic director of the Northern Centre for Storytelling in Grasmere and the author of many collections of folk tales for The History Press. He lives in Grasmere, Ambleside.