A scholar of English now working at Beform Museum, Hagen collects information from various primary and secondary sources in order to provide a composite picture of food and drink in what is now England and Wales, from the arrival of Anglo-Saxons in the early fifth century to about 1100 by which time the Normans had flooded the island with foreign dishes. Quotations are in Old English with modern translation. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)