Through a culinary tour of British comfort eating, from nursery staples to school canteen classics, from inside the officers' mess to City dining rooms, Tom Norrington-Davies asks why we all love the recipes we grew up with, why comfort food has become synonymous with junk food and what we can learn from days gone by. There is corn beef hash, sticky toffee pudding, cottage pie, macaroni cheese, eggy bread, welsh rarebit, fish finger sandwiches, kedgeree, kippers, toad-in-the-hole, lemon curd, spotted dick and many more recipes that should make you feel ten and a half again.