Victorian Londoners consumed 12 million berries a day over the summer.
- Professor of History, University of Warwick
Queen Elizabeth II is not the first British monarch to inspire a pudding.
An audio version of an in depth article about the 18th century Enlightenment thinkers who promoted the potato as a way to build a healthy and productive society.
The story of Britain’s favourite tropical fruit (and how it came to dominate the world).
Some inventive prison inmates have a surprisingly varied and satisfying diet.
When Enlightenment thinkers were looking for a way to build a healthy and productive society, they hit upon the tuber.
Henry VIII’s Spanish queen, Catherine, introduced him to them and he is said to have eaten 20 at one sitting. Food for thought this Thanksgiving.
The Queen-Empress had a notoriously sweet tooth.
The mighty banger is all things to all people … including vegetarians.
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