A. P. Herbert’s ditzy-but-wise heroine Topsy writes long, stream of consciousness missives to her faithful friend Trix. In the months of rationing and food shortage after the Second World War, she and her politician husband are on their way back to England from Denmark on a ship laden with food for the starving British masses. [...]
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Topsy and Trix
Posted in beer, books, denmark, england, food, liquor, schnapps, tagged a. p. herbert, books, denmark, food, humour on 20/08/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Herring Boat Fisherfood
Posted in beer, food, liquor, scotland, television, tagged fishermen, food, herring, scotland, television, tom cunliffe on 19/05/2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Reaper is a 19th century lugger, a Fifie-class herring boat, that was a stalwart of the Scottish fleets that harvested the fish that fed the British Isles, and indeed much of Europe. In his series, The Boats That Built Britain, Tom Cunliffe talks about the food that the men ate: Cullen Skink today. Cullen [...]
Singh Fried
Posted in beer, books, food, indonesia, singapore, tagged beer, bintang, food, indonesian food, inspector singh, nasi goreng, shamini flint on 13/02/2010 | Leave a Comment »
In Shamini Flint’s Inspector Singh Investigates: A Bali Conspiracy Most Foul, the corpulent eponymous hero is on secondment to the hunt for the Bali bombers, and finds a moment to stuff himself silly with some Indonesian food. Singh took a deep breath. He smelt the spicy warm scent of ikan bakar, fish wrapped in banana [...]
