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- Books
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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
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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- Books
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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- Books
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A brief examination of the Bishop of Cork's discourse, of drinking to the memory of the dead. By a country-curate.
Country-curate.Date: 1714