A feast of folk tales about food, with illustrations by Lakeland artist Becca Hall. Taffy Thomas loves both stories and food. During the last 50 years he has shared the stage with noted Lakeland chefs who have tickled his palette with tastings and information about dishes and ingredients - the oral history of food - which he uses to season these magical stories. This feast of traditional tales is spiced up with rhymes and riddles that always enrich Taffy’s work. ‘You and me, me and you, we all bring something to the stew’ From the tales we tell to the food we’ve got we all bring something to the pot’ AUTHOR: Taffy Thomas is a professional storyteller who gives around 300 storytelling performances across the country each year. One of the UK’s most loved storytellers, he was made an MBE in the 2000 New Year’s Honours List for services to storytelling and charity. In 2000-2011 he became the first laureate for storytelling, a role created to promote the power of stories. Taffy is the artistic director of the Northern Centre for Storytelling in Grasmere and the author of many collections of folk tales for The History Press. He lives in Grasmere, Ambleside. 15 colour, 30 b/w illustrations