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John Morrissey’s Three Months Diet, c.1919

March 15, 2017 in 19th Century and Onwards, Food, Historical Books, History

I was looking through old scanned health and wellness books on archive.org recently, researching for another blog post, when I came across something so incredible I had to read it three times. And make a blog post about it. In Edward B Warman’s The Care of the Body, published in 1919, there’s a section that offers … Read More

A Mrs Beeton recipe: Tomatoes, Stuffed, With Mushrooms

March 16, 2015 in 19th Century and Onwards, Food, Historical Books, History, Reading

Last year, I found a copy of Mrs Beeton’s Household Management in a secondhand book store, and snapped it up eagerly. It isn’t obvious when it was printed. A previous owner wrote her name and the year 1944, but certain things made me believe this was already a few years old when she got it – for … Read More

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John Morrissey’s Three Months Diet, c.1919

A Mrs Beeton recipe: Tomatoes, Stuffed, With Mushrooms

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