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Lovely Food (1931) (opens the original)
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My recent chat with reminded me of Lovely Food by Ruth Lowinsky. Published in 1931, it belonged to a new genre of slim, elegant cookbooks written by society hostesses like Dorothy Allhusen and Agnes Jekyll. They celebrated the joy of entertaining, which their authors excelled at, and the stylishness of cooking, which few of them actually did themselves. They were aspirational guides for the lower middle-classe
What can Conquest Man tell us about our diet in 1066? (opens the original)
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Ahead of my discussion with and Professor Giles Gasper at the Serve It Forth Food History Festival about how the Normans changed the way we eat, I had a chat with Kevin Booth, English Heritage’s Head Curator of Collections, about what the skeleton of ‘Conquest Man’ can tell us about the diet and health of the English at the time of the Norman invasion.<p style="text-align: center;"
Two Savouries (opens the original)
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Guess who's back? (opens the original)
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