At Christmas 1940 the battleship HMS Revenge was in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Atlantic convoy defence.While those at home were suffering the effects of severe rationing, the sailors in the battleship ...
Terrible recipes are one of life’s great joys. I collect awful cookbooks, marvelling at the meals we are expected to put in our stomachs and live, and recently picked up, from 1952, Pressure Cooking ...
FROM LEOPOLD Bloom’s legendary breakfast of “thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards . . . a stuffed roast heart” and the description of the sea as “snot- green”, it’s hard to ignore the visual elements of ...