Stories
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Queer cafés and gay mylk
Holly Regan explores queer London spaces where the alternative – oat milk – is the norm for the communities gathering there.
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There’s more to gingerbread than ginger
‘Bake-Off’ finalist Mary-Anne Boermans treats us to the warm and enticing pleasures of gingerbread over centuries.
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The first seizure
Historian Aparna Nair had her first seizure when she was 11. Here she recalls that first time, and how other people’s reactions are sometimes the most disturbing part about having a seizure.
Catalogue
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Encyclopedia of North American eating & drinking traditions, customs, & rituals / Kathlyn Gay, Martin K. Gay.
Gay, Kathlyn.Date: [1996], ©1996
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The philosophy of artificial and compulsory drinking usage in Great Britain and Ireland: containing the characteristic, and exclusively national, convivial laws of British society; with the peculiar compulsory festal customs of ninety-eight trades and occupations in the three kingdoms ... / By John Dunlop.
Dunlop, John, 1789-1868.Date: 1839- Books
A merry, ingenious, and diverting work entitled Liber compotorum felicium, or, The true drunkard's delight, being an attempt, in a collection of brave and witty things from English verse and prose, to set forth, in gratitude for Baccus' bounty, the whole art and philosophy of drinking, to which are added a garland of convivial songs such as may, in praise of proper liquor, be sung by the roaring boys of Elysium and echoed by all choice spirits here below, some account of drinking customs with a selection of toasts, a gallery of notable drunkards, a dictionary of drinking slang, a digest of drunkards' law, and a collection of tried and approved recipes, together with an examination of teetotalism and its miserable songs, an account of some lively deaths and a selection of drunkards' epitaphs, etc., etc / all carefully collected together & in part written by William Juniper. Trinc!.
Juniper, William.Date: [l933]- Books
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A discourse of drinking healths. Wherein the great evil of this prevailing custom is shewn; and the obligation which lieth upon all good Christians to suppress and discountenance it to the utmost of their Power. By Peter Lord Bishop of Cork and Rosse.
Browne, Peter, approximately 1666-1735.Date: 1716
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Apician morsels, or, Tales of the table, kitchen, and larder: with reflections on the dietic productions of early writers; on the customs of the Romans in eating and drinking; on table ceremonies, and rules of conviviality and good breeding; with select epicurean precepts, gourmond maxims and medicines, &c., &c.
Humelbergius, Dick, secundus.Date: 1834