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Stuffed: A political history of what we eat and why it matters
Pen Vogler, Atlantic Books, £10.99
COVERING a huge range of subjects, Stuffed is very much about the history of foods and tastes that we often take for granted.
However, given that the shelves of every corporate bookshop and remainder shop are littered with endless variants of street food, of different takes on national cuisines, of fad diets and already well-known recipes revamped by celebrity chefs, combined with ghost-written biographies, why the interest in this particular text?
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