Fast

by Kevin Jackson, By (photographer) Richard Heeps

"This excellent book is an account of a “meander” though the capital in order to “winkle out something of what it all looks and feels… like to eat on the hoof in the streets of London.” Jackson, who is a learned and entertaining guide, reminds us that the term “fast food” has been debased by its association with “globalism and US imperialism” – in short, with McDonald’s. He wants to remind us of what fast food was once all about: “countless small-scale institutions which sprang up across the centuries” to serve a “ragged army of citizens without a kitchen."'

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From a Gloucester Road chippie to a Wimpy Bar at the end of the Northern Line, via curry houses in Brick Lane and juice bars in Canary Warf, Pret-sandwich connoisseur Kevin Jackson samples the best – and worst – of what Londoner’s are eating on the hoof.

Alongside musings on the saveloy, the origins of the British hot dog, the erotic allure of a McFlurry, and how Kebab-gate did for Gazza’s career, we meet fellow-guzzlers, as well as the people behind the counter as they spin their thin discs of dough, load potato skins, and slap sausages into buns.

If your taste-buds tingle at the distant chime of the ice-cream van or you feel a stab of nostalgia at the sight of a little wooden fork, this is the book for you.

Paperback
144 pages
Publication Date: 01/04/06
ISBN: 1846270294