English Food: A Social History of England Told Through the Food on Its Tables

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Michael Marshall Edward King: Teacher, Pastor, Bishop, Saint Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 2:00pm Thu 30 Thursday, 30 March 2023 See this event Thank you for these very interesting book recommendations on the history of food. How did you first become interested in this subject?

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English Food by Diane Purkiss review – a mouthwatering

Boris’s articles were intended to be witty, humorous, a bit of hyperbole, some irony, a lot of tongue in cheek, some nose-tweaking of people who believe being serious all the time makes them look smart. Juliet Davenport, Rupert Read, Simon Sharpe and Gaia Vince Chaired by Stephen Law Climate Breakdown: Habit, Fear, and Progress Sheldonian Theatre 2:00pm Thu 30 Thursday, 30 March 2023 See this event As late as the Regency period, Diane Purkiss informs us, middle-class dining custom dictated that soup and salad, sweet and savoury, were all placed on the table at once. A typical course might consist of “curry of rabbit soup, open tart, syllabub, macaroni, pastry baskets, salmon trout, sole, vegetable pudding, muffin pudding, larded sweetbreads, raised giblet pie, a preserve of olives and a haunch of venison, and buttered lobster” all arranged around a centrepiece, such as the wonderfully named “bombarded veal”. Once everyone had taken what they wanted, these dishes would be removed and replaced by a different selection and then, in turn, by several desserts. Diane Purkiss (born 30 June 1961) is an Australian historian, and Fellow and Tutor of English at Keble College, Oxford. She specialises in Renaissance and women's literature, witchcraft and the English Civil War. We talked about how she came to live in her Tudor house; how the food changed going in and coming out of the Tudor period; food and the four humours and how ideas about those also changed; favourite cookbooks; fritters; sops; mince pies; cheese; and many other things.It’s the end of the current run so that means it is time for the now traditional end-of-season special postbag edition. This is one of two books that really changed my approach to the whole subject of food. Because most books about the history of food focus on what the rich eat—just like most histories of fashion focus on that tiny one percent of society. And that’s fine, if you recognise that it’s all a daydream. But it doesn’t give you a good holistic picture of what the past was actually like. Tim Marshall The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space will Change our World SOLD OUT Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 4:00pm Thu 30 Thursday, 30 March 2023 See this event