Christmas feasts: WW2 rationing & postwar absurdity
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The Real Out There Weird Stuff
Fanny craddock is a total hero, cooking in a wipe clean evening gown. And most of the food that she cooks looks appalling, but there's a joy to her and a kind of flamboyance. I quite like the out there weird stuff. This is a big era for canope parties and the old hostess trolley. But this is also an era where mass manufacturing has been a huge partof life in britain since really the late nineteenth century. You now youd never dream of making your own custard at this point.
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