Stories
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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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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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The soul in the stomach
A 17th-century physician’s controversial theory about the link between the emotions and the stomach reminds us that we shouldn’t ignore our ‘gut feelings’.
Catalogue
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Food in ancient Judah : domestic cooking in the time of the Hebrew Bible / Cynthia Shafer-Elliott.
Shafer-Elliott, Cynthia, 1975-Date: 2013- Books
The semiotics of food in the Bible / Jean Soler.
Soler, JeanDate: 1979- Books
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A new description of Paris: or, the Present State of the French Nation. Giving An Account of their Virtues and Vices, Academies, Dress, Devotion, Levity, Women, Beggars, Writers, Booksellers. Their Diversions, Theatres, Gallantry, Language, Entertainment of Strangers, Lawyers, Pickpockets, Physicians and Quacks. The Court, the Great Men, the King and the Mob. The Tuilleries, Lamps, Chymists, and Clergy. Their Notions of things. Their Houses, Eating-Houses, Liveries. Their Conjugal Affection, Luxury, Vanity, Civility, Garrulity. Their Courts of Judicature. Their Invention, Affection, Labour, Taverns, Climate, Trades-People, Fruit, House-Rent, Taylors, Brokers, Fair of St. Germain. Their Bridges, Buildings, Political Calculations of the Number of Houses, Consumption of Food, &c. In a Letter from a Gentleman at Paris to his Friend in London.
Gentleman at Paris.Date: [1725?]- Books
The food medicine bible / Earl Mindell.
Mindell, Earl.Date: [1994], ©1994- Books
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True explanations of the Bible : Continued from part VI. given in 1805, and published in that year. Also, an answer to Hann's false assertions in his handbills & advertisements: together with an account of Ann Moore living without food, &c. Part the seventh.
Southcott, Joanna, 1750-1814.Date: 1810]