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The food diary and the power of unhealth

Food diaries might appear to present a strictly factual record of dietary choices, but what they don’t include is the more revealing story, as Virginia Hartley suggests.

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The family food of a kebab van man

Melek Erdal celebrates the physical and mental resilience of her father Yusuf, forged by isolation and dislocation, and reinforced by the distinctive cuisine of his home country, Turkey.

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Audrey’s archivist

In this short film, archivist Elena Carter talks about how she worked with Audrey’s scrapbooks to preserve her individual voice within her archive.

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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK

Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.

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  • HP baked beans : in a rich tomato sauce : high in fibre contains protein / HP Foods Limited.
  • Food safety measures for eggs and foods containing eggs / Food Safety Unit, Division of Food and Nutrition, World Health Organization.
  • Food safety measures for eggs and foods containing eggs / Food Safety Unit, Division of Food and Nutrition, World Health Organization.
  • Food safety measures for eggs and foods containing eggs / Food Safety Unit, Division of Food and Nutrition, World Health Organization.
  • A crowd of poorly-dressed people are reaching out their hands to an angel who is carrying a container with food in it and others with baskets of bread and canisters. Etching.
  • Allium schoenoprasum L. Alliaceae. Chives. Bulbour perennial herb. 'schoenoprasm' means 'rush leek' in Greek, referring to the narrow leaves. Distribution: Asia, Europe and North America. Leaves used as a garnish on cooked food and in salads. However like others in Boraginaceae it contains the pyrrolizidine alkaloid cynoglossine which causes liver damage. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A mother with her two young children beside a table of nutritious food containing vitamin A: preventing illness in children in Uganda. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, 2002.
  • Ivelcon is an absolutely pure food beverage, containing the concentrated essence of prime beef and fresh vegetables : one penny cube makes a large cupful by simply adding water / Aplin & Barrett, & Co., Ltd.
  • Ivelcon is an absolutely pure food beverage, containing the concentrated essence of prime beef and fresh vegetables : one penny cube makes a large cupful by simply adding water / Aplin & Barrett, & Co., Ltd.
  • Phytin "(calcium magnesium salt of inositol hexaphosphoric acid) : a nerve food and general tonic containing about 22 per cent. of organically combined assimilable and non-toxic phosphorus : blotter no.2 / The Clayton Aniline Co. Ltd.
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