NO.72
FALL/WINTER2023
Our Archive
No.17, Apr 2011
The Hardship, War & Austerity Number, Part 2
The Hardship, War & Austerity Number, Part 2
- in the critical
- Wartime Cookery, featuring not only imposters but also erotomania
- It left a bad taste: The Editor considers The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food by Lizzie Collingham
- The Curmudgeonly Raconteur doubles down on St. John with the Editor.
- in the lyrical
- Portman Pudding and Snoek Piquant:
- An Appreciation of the sheep’s head, both at the table and on the page.
- A Note from the Edge (of the Forest of Dean) about austerity in Gloucestershire.
- An Appreciation of the Approval Matrix, Paula Deen & “English Peas”
- in the practical
- A nod to Easter and austerity: Recipes for rabbit (or, if you insist, chicken).
- Mushroom Pies
- Ambrose Heath’s “Sussex Blanket”
- Sir Kenneth Clark’s “ham roll salad”
- A wartime ‘Kedgeree of Kidneys’
- Ambrose Heath and olive oil during wartime lead the Editor to wonder about some conventional wisdom concerning the insularity of the island kitchen.