Food – To Die For: Food Preparation in the Georgian Era
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Food – To Die For: Food Preparation in the Georgian Era
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Until I read this I had no idea that the adulteration of food was such a problem! I thought that proper food preservation would have been the biggest issue. Can you imagine ... bleh ...
Food – To Die For: Food Preparation in the Georgian Era
Food
Thought this was a most interesting article.
Food – To Die For: Food Preparation in the Georgian Era
"Miss Bates, let Emma help you to a little bit of tart–a very little bit. Ours are all apple-tarts. You need not be afraid of unwholesome preserves here. I do not advise the custard.”
So says the ever-cautious, Mr Woodhouse, in Jane Austen’s Emma as he entertains his guests at supper. Yet Mr Woodhouse’s fears were not entirely in his imagination.
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In 1851 The Lancet, medical journal, commissioned a doctor from the London Royal Free Hospital to examine the adulteration of thirty common foods. The study revealed that China tea contained 45% sand and dirt together with traces of sulphate of iron; lard contained carbonate of soda and caustic lime; coffee included chicory, mangel wurzel (root vegetable) sawdust, and acorns; cocoa and chocolate were coloured with earth and included arrowroot and Venetian lead; sweets (candy) were found to contain chromate of lead, sulphate of mercury and various other noxious flavourings and colourings. Red lead and other chemical colourings were found to be routinely used in foodstuffs such as “Red Leicester Cheese.”
Celebrating 20 years: Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a feminist parable for everyone.
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BTVS is one of my all time favourite shows. How refreshing to see a female lead that could look after herself and didn't need saving all the time. Buffy was also a great role model for my daughter, who still enjoys a Buffy Marathon now and again.
Any other BTVS fans out there?
Celebrating 20 years: Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a feminist parable for everyone.
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A nod to Buffy the Vampire Slayer which first aired on March 10, 1997.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a feminist parable for everyone – including me Anthony Stewart Head
Twenty years after we started, I see that our series gave flesh (and horns) to the demons we all face in life: teenage Buffy’s storylines transcended age or gender
To Walk Invisible The Brontë Sisters
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“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë
#InternationalWomensDay
To Walk Invisible The Brontë Sisters
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Ever since they were revealed to the world as quaint country-women, the Brontë sisters have fascinated legions of devoted readers. MASTERPIECE brings these remarkable literary geniuses to life with a beautifully filmed and acted two-hour drama, To Walk Invisible The Brontë Sisters .
I've been waiting for this to come to North America! Starts March 26, 2017.
Has anyone seen it?
'Victoria' Is About To Become Your Biggest Non-Guilty Pleasure
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Well that was most enjoyable! I don't know much about Victoria so I was blissfully unaware of any historical inaccuracies. I'm wondering what those of you who are more up to speed on her life & times thought?
Reflections on ten years.
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Wow! Ten years in SL is like a century in RL!
Congratulations on this milestone, Jacon. Wishing you many more happy years in Antiquity.