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 moreThinking About the Land 3 i: The Farmer as a New Role in the 18th-Century
Farming goes back millennia, right? At least to the ‘agricultural revolution?’ Well, only if we use the word ‘farming’ loosely as we often do today to mean cultivating the land…
Read moreWhy the Beef? Empire and Cuisine
On April 12th I will be talking at the Food Book Fair in New York (details below). It’s a great panel, put together by fellow former historian of science, Evelyn…
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