Annie Gray

@dranniegray.bsky.social

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Food historian, mainly British food ca1650 on. Writer, consultant, speaker. #BBCTKC panellist. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/dranniegray

A pale brown moulded water ice (sorbet) made in a pillar mould with a rose on top sits on a floral plate. The background is blurred but is a rather overgrown raised beds with red leaved plants and lots of green.
A flaming hot pizza oven in a rare neat corner of a garden.
An eleborately iced cake, royal icing all over, mainly white but with multi-coloured diamonds on the side and a vaguely C18th female figure of harlequin on top holding a black eye mask. Christmas 2025 picked out in harlequin diamonds in front of her. Oh, and a xmas tree in the background.
Several piles of lovely books on a table in a bookshop. They make you want to rush to your nearest bookshop and buy lots of books. Mainly mine, which is in the middle of the picture.
A camera sits looking onto a very yellow 1950s kitchen
An iced clown head on a stick and a kitchen as a backdrop. Yes, it is terrifying.
A glass museum display case with objects drawn from kitchenalia and high streets, including shop signs, culinary moulds and shop tills.
A plate of sliced raw sashimi style fish dressed with a pink red sauce sits in the foreground, a plate of pommes anna (but with duck fat) in the background. Wooden table. Water glass.
A luscious paperback book sits on a stripy chair. The book is The Bookshop,The Draper, The Candlestick Maker: a history of the high street by Annie Gray. The cover features illustrated shops.
A pair of rather spiffing brown brogued leather boots on my feet.
A pudding basin with a pudding cloth on is suspended from a string handle above a cluttered worktop.
A blue and white oval plate on a wooden surface. A brass pestle and mortar nearby. On the plate two slices of bread soaked in cream and stout and fried, and four sausages, one of which is pale yellow and actually a rice pudding. The other three are filled with bread or biscuit, cream, spice and suet.
A hand holds a plastic bottle repurposes as a sausage funnel. A turgid sausage skin is visible emerging from the bottom. It is a bit obscene.
A box of books, arranged to show back, front and spine of the copies of The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker by Annie Gray. Cover has an illustration of historic shops through time in yellow and orange tones.
An advert for a bookshop event, with the cover of the book on the left. Cover is a very snazzy illustration of a series of historic shops through time.
A black and white plate sits on a wooden surface. On it are thick slices of ham, topped with lettuce and on top of that pear halves covered with cream cheese and grape halves blobbed on like buttons or angry pustules. It does not look appetising.
A book cover for The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker: a history of the high street by Annie Gray. Pale cream with an orange band round the outside. Illustration of 7 shops through time, starting with a butcher with horse outside, ending with a small supermarket with a car outside.
Me, grinning cheerily, standing by my bookcases, posing in a terracotta coloured tee bearing the words 'this impeccably researched book us unfortunately marred by politically correct, progressive rebukes' Daily Mail.
A stone wall with grass below and a sign which states NO in red. Presumably it once said NO PARKING?
The Mallard train in blue (it is very streamlined) sits on a rail of chocolate within a bright green cake. Three figures wave (made of sugarpaste) - two adults and a baby. The cake sits on a workspace of wood and is surrounded by kitchen paraphernalia as the photographer was clearly too keen to take the picture to clear up.
Two small bottles of brown liquid, with labels reading sardine garum and pollen garum. Each has a dropper in rather than a conventional screw top. Background is a wooden worktop.
A royal iced card, bright pink, with lurid decoration and a large slice removed.
The opening page of Vanity Fair, held by a hand sporting lurid orange nail varnish. Background of bookcases and indoor plants
A short haired historian making a stupid face in front of a large microphone and am open book. Historian wears a black jumper and white tank top. Background is a sound proofed booth of small proportions.
A black and white advert for merryweather hand fire engine. Main picture is of a kneeling man with resplendent facial hair, wielding a hose attached to a pump action bucket. He is aiming it at a large fire (which resembles a tree) emerging from a bedside table. There's a curtained bed and a window in the background. It doesn't look like he's having much effect.
Blue car with an open bonnet. Battery jump leads run from a conked out battery to off screen. It is all quite dirty.
a very grey lake with icebergs in and mountains around. It is raining but still spectacular.
A shiny red pizza oven with a fire inside and a prawn pizza cooking. Messy patio.