I’ve written previously about food in dystopian literature, using George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four as my chosen text. Continue reading “Food as a source of comfort”
Food and loss
Jyoti Patel’s debut novel, The things that we lost, explores the idea of loss in a number of different ways. Continue reading “Food and loss”
A literary and culinary translation
From the earliest times stories have been translated into other languages, adapted into different contexts and rewritten to suit a new place, time and readership. From Chaucer borrowing from the works of the Italian writers Boccaccio and Petrarch for many of his Canterbury Tales to Shakespeare’s plundering of historical records and ancient tales, where stories are concerned there is ‘nothing new under the sun’. Continue reading “A literary and culinary translation”
The Chocolate War
Disagreements over chocolate are commonplace: some people prefer milk, some dark. Family members and friends may well argue over who gets to eat the nation’s favourite Quality Street (according to a 2021 article in the Daily Telegraph it is the purple one ) and who is lumbered with the least favourite (the orange creme according to the same article). But you wouldn’t normally expect such differences to be described as a ‘war’. Continue reading “The Chocolate War”