Stories
- Article
The cook who became a pariah
New York, 1907. Mary Mallon spreads infection, unaware that her name will one day become synonymous with typhoid.
- Book extract
Eating their own kind
In his grisly history of cannibalism, zoologist Bill Schutt asks what drives an animal to feast on its own flesh and blood.
- Article
Busting myths about turkey-baster babies
The popular idea of sex-free, turkey-baster-led conception has been around since the 1970s. Christine Ro goes beyond the utensils drawer to find out if it’s ever really happened.
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Rag mags and monthly issues: Five period zines to stop you seeing red
Using humour, personal experience and political activism to explore the bloody reality of menstruation.
Catalogue
- Books
The best American science writing 2007 / editor: Gina Kolata ; series editor: Jesse Cohen.
Date: [2007], ©2007- Books
The American Psychiatric Association Auxiliary cookbook : 150 years of cooking and caring / Venie Palasota, editor-in-chief.
Date: [1994], ©1994- Books
The cooking gene : a journey through African American culinary history in the Old South / Michael W. Twitty.
Twitty, Michael W., 1977-Date: [2017]- Books
Food in colonial and federal America / Sandra L. Oliver.
Oliver, Sandra L. (Sandra Louise), 1947-Date: 2005- Books
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Homely hints on food and cooking, digestion and indigestion : with over one hundred and forty simple, economical and practical recipes (English, French and American).
Date: 1902