Animal Vegetable Mineral presents an alternative history of London’s fraudulent food

The history of London as a culinary capital has not always been so sweet; alongside our edible elite we have a chronicle of counterfeit confectionary and falsified foodstuffs. From children’s sweets dyed with copper, to wine sweetened with lead, our approach to food has always been experimental to say the least. ​

 Uncover the secrets of the sweet shoppe as we venture back to the 1800s with Food Historian Tasha Marks, and experience first-hand the sensational nature of sweets with your own bag of edible marvels.