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Foraging for a taste of the past

Follow tips from a professional forager to recreate delicious 18th-century recipes from plants growing wild in parks and on urban wasteland.

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Cloves to mull, mask and numb

Sweet, pungent, warm, woody: cloves smell and taste like Christmas. But there’s much more to this spice than that.

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Lonely bodies are hungry for more than turkey

At Christmas, many charities provide dinners for homeless or isolated people. Food is central to festive celebrations, but it can also satisfy our hunger for belonging and community.

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Doctors and the English seaside

Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.

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  • Two naked children tasting champagne and tying up bottles. Lithograph by Piecq, c. 1845, after Gosse.
  • People eating and drinking before a tapestry; representing the sense of taste. Engraving by A. Bosse after himself, c. 1650.
  • Memorial of a dead child. Watercolour by S.E.B. (?), 1848.
  • Memorial of a dead child. Watercolour by S.E.B. (?), 1848.
  • Memorial of a dead child. Watercolour by S.E.B. (?), 1848.
  • A haggard old woman carelessly mixing a recipe for corns on the fire in her sordid bedroom. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.
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