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Category Archives: Food
On Wednesday the new series ‘Our Food’ begins on BBC2, 8pm… You might enjoy the trailer, here it is, or I do really recommend the clip where I burp the dead turkey, which you can see here. Here’s my article in … Continue reading
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The makings of a modern Christmas Cooked peacocks and dead robins have come and gone, but today’s festival draws on many other unlikely tastes and rituals. Lucy Worsley in The Telegraph, 22.12.2011 ‘Take a peacock, break its neck and cut … Continue reading
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It’s a big deal being photographed by Julia Fullerton-Batten, as I was recently for the New Yorker. (‘For the New Yorker’. Note how coolly I toss that out? Believe me, my nonchalance is feigned.) The first indication that something extraordinary … Continue reading
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Marc and Robert from Historia, the food historians who work at Hampton Court, were cooking dishes from a 1789 menu for George III for Lauren Collins of the New Yorker. Who could resist coming along for a taste? Certain not … Continue reading
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This is a plea for information about the food writer Dorothy Hartley (1893-1985) – please do pass it on to any foodies of your acquaintance… Her seminal book Food in England was published in 1954. All true foodies know it … Continue reading
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Tomorrow when I go to the office I’m going to have rather a swanky answer to the question ‘what did you get up at the weekend’? I went oyster fishing, and have the sunburn, the slightly queasy sensation from sea-sickness and … Continue reading
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