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Aug 31 2012


Interview with Stephanie Hersh

Filed under Food

A recent interview with Stephanie Hersh appeared here.  Stephanie was Julia Child’s assistant for sixteen years.  I took a pastry course with her at Santa Barbara City College in 2003; she moved to New Zealand shortly after Julia Child’s death the following year.  She is both a trained chef and a food scholar, and a wonderful teacher.

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Feb 01 2011


Roast Beef and … salad?

Filed under Food,History

The English diet has been mythologised as one of roasted meats and few vegetables but, as Anita Guerrini concludes from a survey of early modern writings on the subject, the nation’s approach to food has been rather more complicated than that. (Read more in History Today)

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