Daniel Gray – Food of the Cods

We're delighted to welcome Daniel Gray to the bookshop to launch his new book, Food of the Cods: How Fish and Chips Made Britain, a richly entertaining celebration of Britain's national dish and its iconic neon houses. Gray will be in conversation with photographer Alan McCredie.

This event will take place in the bookshop with an in-person audience. There will be a signing after the event.

In-person vouchers can be redeemed on the night of the event against a single copy of Food of the Cods – we will have a list of attendees with vouchers to be redeemed. Please note that only one voucher can be redeemed per book.

About Food of the Cods:

In this lively and relatable book, acclaimed author Daniel Gray ponders the magic of chippies and rejoices in the delights they have sprinkled among us over the last 150 years. He investigates the social - and sociable - history of fish and chips, revealing the shared truths that bind us to this edible institution and its charismatic outlets.

By travelling to chippies across Britain, the celebrated and the unheralded, he will show how many of the themes that shape our country are drizzled in vinegar. Chippies have emancipated working class women, brought equality for immigrants, amplified regional and class differences and shaped local and national identity. Gray's journey - from Dundee to Devon via South Shields, Oldham, Bradford, Bethnal Green, the Rhondda Valley and elsewhere - gets under the skin of today's fish and chip nation to answer some of the most pressing questions...

Where is the 'scraps border'? Tea, Vimto or dandelion and burdock: which drink makes the best accompaniment? Do fish and chips taste better when eaten in the open air? And what do regional variations - Wolverhampton's orange chips, London's wallies, Hull's chip spice - tell us about their locales? This mouth-watering book is as much about who we are as what we eat.