![William Hogarth's 1748 Roast Beef of Old England](http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/historyofscience/files/2011/05/William_Hogarth_063-300x251.jpg)
The English diet has been mythologised as one of roasted meats and few vegetables but, as Anita Guerrini concludes from a survey of early modern writings on the subject, the nation’s approach to food has been rather more complicated than that. (Read more in History Today)