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Gretel’s Bookshelf: How Belgian food inspired British WWI cooking

Belgian refugee children eating bread and jam, London, 1940, Wikimedia Commons

Welcome to Gretel’s Bookshelf, where we spotlight interesting cookbooks from around the world, speak to experts about their history, and pick out the best recipes.  When you think of major stories about World War I, you don’t often think of the arrival of 250,000 Belgian refugees to British shores. “This period is still a lesser […]

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Gretel’s Bookshelf: ‘Cooking for those alone and in love’, sexuality and gender in communist Poland

Lemnis’ and Vitry’s cookbook. Pic: Allegro.pl

Welcome to Gretel’s Bookshelf, where we spotlight interesting cookbooks from around the world, speak to experts about their history, and pick out the best recipes. Not many people remember Tadeusz Żakiej, a post-war Polish musicologist and composer who is at most a footnote in the history of Polish theatre and performance. Meanwhile, Żakiej’s contemporaries, a […]