Crunching data: 200 years of crisps

Dr Sara Lodge appeared on BBC Radio 4's 'The Food Programme', uncovering the nineteenth-century history of potato crisps and the long-standing British passion for this salty snack.

One of the first published recipes for crisps appears in Dr William Kitchiner's The Cook's Oracle (1817), an eccentric, opinionated and ground-breaking cookbook, and in the programme Sara reads aloud Kitchiner's recipe for crisps and discusses with presenter Sheila Dillon what made The Cook's Oracle such a remarkable and influential book.

The programme can be heard on BBC iPlayer where it is also available to download.