An Unnecessary Bahls-Up
On forced labour and the Bahlsen food company
Germany’s Bahlsen food company has apologised after a report showed that it used far more forced labourers during the Second World War than previously acknowledged.
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What precious kitchen item would you save in a fire?
Scones v Biscuits
I don't want you to miss this!
Here's a super-short, spur-of-the-moment post about a news story published just a few hours ago. Abbas Asaria's report on the servilletas of the Iberian Peninsula and the man collecting them is a tiny joy in defiance of the relentlessly awful news cycle.
Bones
It feels a little perverse of me to wonder whether there's a food or cookbook angle to National Scoliosis Awareness Month which takes place in the June of each year. If I was being lazily obvious I'd tell you about Cooking on the Bone by Jennifer