'If you're interested in what we really eat, read this' Felicity Cloake'Benton is the man for the job' Pen Vogler, TLSIsn't British food meant to be bad?Stiff sandwiches, limp vegetables, dry roasts crying out for gravy. We've come a long way from the bad old days. Modern Britain is a vibrant culinary home to the world's most diverse range of foods, constantly evolving with every restaurant opening and new viral trend - and...

Chef and food writer Ben Benton is on a mission. British food is usually seen as a dire affair - if people think of it at all, they picture fish and chips, tea and cakes, stiff sandwiches and limp vegetables. But the truth is that British food today is one of the world's most innovative and diverse cuisines, and Ben Benton is setting out to catalogue the best dishes from across the country - from the Black Isle to the Balti Triangle, Liverpool to Land's End.Whether sampling seafood...

David Franklin Stark was born in Highland County, Ohio in 1851. His father moved the family to a farm near Lexington, Illinois in 1857. A long economic depression began in 1873 with a banking collapse and thousands of men became unemployed, lost farms, and generally became indigent. David left home looking for work and ended up in Nashville, Tennessee where, out of desperation, he joins the army in March 1875. However, family history has him as a cowboy on the Great Western Cattle Trail fo...