Rachel Laudan

Was the English breakfast invented in the mid nineteenth century?  That’s the worry Adam Balic, who is as profoundly informed about the history of British food as anyone I know, expresses about my report of Kaori O’Connor’s English Breakfast. And he adds some wonderful quotations as evidence. Mea culpa.  I said that the heyday of [...]

The country house breakfast was at its height from the mid-nineteenth century to the Second World War, although its roots went back before that. In a house the saize of a small palace, a buffet was laid out: game (in season), fish, fresh breads, made dishes such as devilled kidneys, tea, and coffee. potted shrimp [...]

First, have Prince Charles give an impassioned speech that, at least in the reports I have read, consists of a string of unsupported assertions. Second, follow up with scores of comments like these on Charles and GM in the Telegraph (for non Brits, that’s the major conservative paper) which (leaving aside those that venture further [...]