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The chymist’s trade card

An 18th-century trade card reveals far more than its owner may have intended.

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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean

Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.

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Dress and the magic of touch

Fashion, of course, is largely about appearance, but the feeling of clothes on your skin is a complex sensory experience. Shahidha Bari contemplates the human connections in the business of creating and wearing clothes.

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Enduring taboos and the future of skin bleaching

Many condemn skin bleaching in public while secretly lightening their own complexions. To break away from these taboos, we need honest information and open conversation.

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  • Douglas's encyclopædia : a book of reference for bacon curers, bacon factory managers, bacon agents, meat purveyors, meat inspectors, meat salesmen, abattoir superintendants, city, county or local authority officers, cold store proprietors and managers, sausage and pork pie makers, and all other industries associated with the meat, pork, provision and general food trades.
  • Douglas's encyclopædia : a book of reference for bacon curers, bacon factory managers, bacon agents, meat purveyors, meat inspectors, meat salesmen, abattoir superintendants, city, county or local authority officers, cold store proprietors and managers, sausage and pork pie makers, and all other industries associated with the meat, pork, provision and general food trades.
  • Douglas's encyclopædia : a book of reference for bacon curers, bacon factory managers, bacon agents, meat purveyors, meat inspectors, meat salesmen, abattoir superintendants, city, county or local authority officers, cold store proprietors and managers, sausage and pork pie makers, and all other industries associated with the meat, pork, provision and general food trades.
  • Douglas's encyclopædia : a book of reference for bacon curers, bacon factory managers, bacon agents, meat purveyors, meat inspectors, meat salesmen, abattoir superintendants, city, county or local authority officers, cold store proprietors and managers, sausage and pork pie makers, and all other industries associated with the meat, pork, provision and general food trades.
  • Douglas's encyclopædia : a book of reference for bacon curers, bacon factory managers, bacon agents, meat purveyors, meat inspectors, meat salesmen, abattoir superintendants, city, county or local authority officers, cold store proprietors and managers, sausage and pork pie makers, and all other industries associated with the meat, pork, provision and general food trades.
  • Douglas's encyclopædia : a book of reference for bacon curers, bacon factory managers, bacon agents, meat purveyors, meat inspectors, meat salesmen, abattoir superintendants, city, county or local authority officers, cold store proprietors and managers, sausage and pork pie makers, and all other industries associated with the meat, pork, provision and general food trades.
  • Scottish quality pork : farm assured : five mouthwatering Scottish pork recipes : insist on the peak of Scottish pork / Scottish Pig industry Initiative.
  • Scottish quality pork : farm assured : five mouthwatering Scottish pork recipes : insist on the peak of Scottish pork / Scottish Pig industry Initiative.
  • A pork-butcher's shop: two butchers are working with knives and cleavers as another makes sausages, a woman has come to buy and is holding some money in her hand. Coloured etching, 18--.
  • Free range pork : nature's choice / Tesco.
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