SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 2018 AND THE ANDRÉ SIMON
FOOD BOOK AWARDS 2019
**'Filled with hearty goodness and packed together with care, this will
go down a treat' Evening Standard'Rich and compelling' Spectator'An
accomplished social history ... lively and absorbing' Who Do You Think
You Are?The fascinating history of an iconic East End institution from
the bestselling author of Silvertown, Melanie McGrath. G Kelly's Pie
and Mash has been run by the same family in the Roman Road in Bow for
nearly a hundred years; an East End institution and the still point of a
turning world. Outside its windows the Roman Road has seen an
extraordinary revolution - from women's liberation and industrialisation
to wars and immigration - and yet at its heart it remains one of the
last traditional market roads of London.Pie and Mash down the Roman
Road is the biography of that shop and of the people - customers,
suppliers, employees, owners - who passed through it, and continue to do
so. Through vivid tales of ordinary lives the book tells the
extraordinary story of the community living around the oldest trading
route in Britain, and the true heart of the East End.
