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…

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Marzipan, Halvah, and the Uses of Meal

Marzipan, 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.…

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How 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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