Stories
- Article
Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
- 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
We who can’t believe
Unless she falls to the floor unconscious, Anne Boyer has always ignored signs of illness. Cancer, however, made her face her fallibility.
Catalogue
- Books
Al dente : a history of food in Italy / Fabio Parasecoli.
Parasecoli, FabioDate: [2014]- Books
Feasts and fasts : a history of food in India / Colleen Taylor Sen.
Sen, Colleen TaylorDate: 2015- Books
Interpreting food at museums and historic sites / Michelle Moon.
Moon, Michelle, 1969-Date: [2016]- Books
Food and museums / edited by Nina Levent and Irina D. Mihalache.
Date: 2017- Books
The language of food : a linguist reads the menu / Dan Jurafsky.
Jurafsky, Dan, 1962-Date: [2014]