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Dorothy Hartley’s ‘Food in England’: recipes to make at home
Here for your delectation I’ve chosen some of the easier and more palatable recipes from ‘Food in England’ – nothing involving offal! Stargazey Pie This is a recipe I made with the present-day pupils at the boys’ grammar school in Skipton, Dorothy’s birthplace and her childhood home. It’s fairly easy: you tuck fresh pilchards (head and
Continue ReadingNew BBC film: ‘Food in England, The Lost World of Dorothy Hartley’
‘‘Food in England’, The Lost World of Dorothy Hartley’ … is a brand-new programme due to be shown on BBC4 at 9pm on Tuesday 6th November. It’ll be accompanied by a new edition of some of Dorothy’s journalism from the 1930s, ‘Lost World’ (left), published by Prospect Books with an extensive new biographical introduction. Any
Continue ReadingDorothy Hartley brings me to tears
So far there my TV life there have been three people, when I’ve interviewed them on camera, who have managed to bring a little tear to my eye. The first was a lady who escaped Nazi Germany on one of the Kindertransport trains as a girl, describing being reunited with her parents at the end
Continue ReadingCan anyone help me with Dorothy Hartley? New TV project.
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 and love it as a wonderful, if slightly random, collection of information about the history
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