Food history
You are what you don’t eat
In the past, the ability to preserve food depended largely on people’s means, making Eleanor Barnett’s history of food waste also a history of changing attitudes to poverty
From hard tack to trifle
Prue Leith traces the biscuit’s surprisingly colourful history
Life on a plate
In the concluding chapter of this book the Daily Telegraph’s restaurant critic and recovering vegan-baiter William Sitwell muses on the…
The milk of paradise?
Until fairly recently, all over the western world there were specialised eating places catering largely for Jews who respected the…
