Alan Bennett on Wartime British Food
I enjoyed playwright Alan Bennett‘s recollections in his 2019 diary in the London Review of Books, courtesy of The Browser. 11 February. A piece in the TLS by Laura Freeman about how…
Read moreMarzipan, Halvah, and the Uses of Meal
When was the last time you thought about comminution—reducing solid materials to a smaller size—in the kitchen? Perhaps you occasionally cut up a chicken or a large piece of meat.…
Read moreHow History Matters to Contemporary Food Debates
That’s the subtitle of a new anthology, Food Fights, edited by Charles C. Ludington and Matthew Morse Booker. The food movement, represented in the media by writers such Eric Schlosser,…
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