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British Wartime Food: How Britain Fed Itself During World War Two
British Shopkeeper cancelling coupons. April 1943 United States Office of War Information, Overseas Picture Division. In Britain, during the First World War, 1914 to 1918, queues for food had become dangerously long. A Ministry of Food was created to help with the homefront food situation, and rationing was introduced starting with sugar in December 1917,…
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Byzantine Food
This brief discussion on Byzantine food, far from in-depth, is designed to give some background to what is now classed as Greek and Turkish food. Byzantium, later named Constantinopole (in modern times: Istanbul), was a city on a peninsula, surrounded by water on three sides. It’s important to be clear that the citizens called themselves…
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Jewish Food
Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as “Jewish food”, but rather perhaps “Jewish foods.” There are different culinary worlds and traditions within Judaism, just as there are for instance within Catholicism — Scottish Catholics cook very differently from Spanish ones. In Israel, there are two main branches of Jewish cooking, Ashkenazic and Sephardic. Some…
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Japanese Food
Japanese Food is a very elegant cuisine. When anyone debates, “what are the great cuisines of the world”, Japanese has to be up there on the list. It even influenced the 20th century movement in France called “nouvelle cuisine”, in terms of both preparation and presentation. Japanese cooking has a larger number of ingredients served…
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Italian Food
Perhaps more than any country, it’s hard to say of Italy that there is a national cuisine. While it is also hard to say this of France, Italy has had far more history and civilisations roll through it, with each leaving small pockets of themselves behind in their wake. Nor has Italy ever had the…
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Norwegian Food
About two-thirds of Norway’s land-mass is mountains; only 5% of the land is arable. In the north of Norway, the growing season is 100 days; in the south, 190 days. The days are long, though in a Norwegian summer: the sun will rise as early as 2 to 3 pm, and stay up until around…
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Lancashire Food
Lancashire is a county on the west coast of England, on the Irish sea. The county is smaller now that it used to be. The size was reduced politically in 1974. It used to include Manchester and Liverpool to the south, and northern bits of it were taken away and added to Cumbria. Some food…
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Food in Ancient Greece
Evan Amos (2010) / Wikimedia Commons What we know about food in Ancient Greece comes from their literature. No book specifically on food or recipes is extant from that period, but food is talked about a great deal by characters in Greek plays. Greeks had two kinds of symbolism in their food. One kind was…
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