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
The humble biscuit has a noble history
Prue Leith traces the biscuit’s surprisingly colourful history
William Sitwell’s history of eating out reminds us painfully of what we’re missing
In the concluding chapter of this book the Daily Telegraph’s restaurant critic and recovering vegan-baiter William Sitwell muses on the…
Kashrut dietary laws are ill-suited to lactose-intolerant Jews
Until fairly recently, all over the western world there were specialised eating places catering largely for Jews who respected the…
