Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive.

Travellers in northern England may also be offered black pudding, a sausage made from pork fat, onions, oatmeal and congealed blood. Narrated by the author, so at least I didn't have the added unpleasantness of having to listen to someone mispronounce and misunderstand everything. Following on from our adventures eating around Bruges in Belgium, we flew to England and hired a car to get around. Now Caine delves into the real stories behind the gangs we think we know so well, revealing the hidden realities behind the myths. I read 'Toast' earlier this year, having read an extract by chance, and believeChapati also requires minimal ingredients to create soft, chewy, earthy-tasting, and perfectly charred breads that are lovely alone but perfect with a little chutney spread on them to scoop up dal. England has enjoyed such a mix of cultures and traditions that many mouth-watering foods have found their way onto our plates and into our hearts. He devotes by far the most time to the sweet stuff, though, considering the respective merits of every type of biscuit, candy, chocolate bar and pudding. We hope you enjoy going through this list of amazing foods, and that it inspires you to go beyond the tastes you are used to and explore all the flavors hidden out there.

The rest of Europe makes jam that slides sexily off the mound of clotted cream and dribbles down the edge of the scone (an exquisite moment if ever there was one). In Eating For England Nigel has given us a collection of his writings loosely based around the theme of 'England' or 'the English at table'. It's very different and contains lots of snippets of our tastes, likes and dislikes, our being the British. But I decided from the start that I would instead concentrate on all the goodness I am adding and how flipping awesome it’s making me feel. As an adult, Nigel enjoys time with an aging Aunt Elvie, who has some mysterious news to impart over cream tea and champagne.Sometimes, particularly in the more inward-looking parts of post-industrial England, you might have to dig deeper for a welcome: in such places, the public bar is where working men bond over a pint while the plusher saloon bar is the preferred haunt of couples and women. That more people probably eat Chocolate Brownies than apple crumble and that it is now easier to find decent sushi than really good roast beef.

And according to the residents of the Japanese island of Okinawa - the world's longest-living people - finding it is the key to a longer and more fulfilled life.

But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a US Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes. New and familiar characters abound, voiced by a bright mix of performers, including Kat Dennings, Regé-Jean Page, Emma Corrin, Michael Sheen, Kristen Schaal, Brian Cox, John Lithgow, Jeffrey Wright, and so many more, including fan-favorite narrators Simon Vance and Ray Porter. In 200 or so essays that range from a paragraph to a few pages in length, Slater extols everything from marmalade to Brussels sprouts. Ours is the colour of washing-up water and smells of old people", in my opinion a rather unfair description.