Stories
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Maria McKinney on ‘Sire’
All my grandparents were farmers; I grew up in the countryside surrounded by farms and helped neighbours herd sheep and cattle into the field. My body of work called ‘Sire’ looks at the genomics of modern cattle breeding.
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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
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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.
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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.
Catalogue
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Choice cuts : meat production in ancient Egypt / by Salima Ikram.
Ikram, Salima.Date: 1995- Pictures
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A butcher's boy describes his ailment to a doctor in terms of cuts of meat. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by Crété after B.A. Rabier, 1903.
Rabier, Benjamin, 1864-1939.Date: 7 June 1903Reference: 17195i- Ephemera
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A fascinating problem : cut out these 13 pieces and arrange them to form the six letters of the word "Bovril"... / Bovril Ltd.
Bovril Limited.Date: [between 1900 and 1909?]- Ephemera
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A. J. Bateson : family butcher, 271 Dunstable Road, Luton : cooked ham, pressed beef etc. : always in cut.
Bateson, A. J.Date: [between 1930 and 1939?]- Ephemera
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"Redi-Cut" chicken recipes and suggestions / Susan Shaw.
Shaw, Susan.Date: [between 1950 and 1959?]