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Gastronomy and mirth - listen here. The premier food history/studies podcast hosted by Associate Prof of History Bryce Evans and Dr of Marketing Clay Gransden.

Liverpool, England
Joined September 2018
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Go on try these sweets. What are they called? Toxic waste........ #food #foodhistory @drbryceevans #foodstudies Find us on all the usual places to listen to podcasts.
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“If every person brought one tin, I guarantee you there would be no kids going to bed hungry at night.” Come rain or shine @SFoodbanks hold collections outside stadiums around the country every week #HungerDoesntWearClubColours
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Thanks all for coming along and listening to our research on the impact and importance of the @SFoodbanks movement and sharing in the hopeful tragedy that is this work. We are in absolute awe of the many organisers and volunteers cheers @DavefcKelly @IanByrneMP @billyliar9 🍻🙏🫡
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Great to start sharing work we have been doing documenting the incredible work of the Fans Supporting Foodbanks movement @SFoodbanks Football Fans fighting food poverty: how a 'lifesaving' mobile pantry scheme spread across the country theconversation.com/football… @ConversationUK
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Good to see ‘food tsar’ @HenryDimbleby finally coming round to backing something I’ve been advocating for a very long time! dailymail.co.uk/health/artic… I’ve written the first full history of British Restaurants, which contains lessons as well as warnings from the past re this model
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Released today - 5 May - in hardback bloomsbury.com/uk/feeding-th…
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My Sky News interview on British Restaurants, how it’s Dickensian to insist on seeing evidence of referral before issuing food aid, the notion of the right to food / food for all, and the cost of living crisis
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BREAKING: The BBC declares war on Italy
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I’ll be live on @SkyNews tomorrow morning at 6:45am to chat with @VanessaBaffoe about my new book & how we can learn from the recent past in asserting the right to food amid this cost of living crisis @BootstrapCook @EatingOnPurpose @LindsayGrahamUK @angusenyo @IanByrneMP
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Forthcoming this May! @EatingOnPurpose @LindsayGrahamUK @DeborahSuggRyan @JWCS_Journal @MandSHeritage @ChuArchives @PHMMcr @UkNatArchives @BloomsburyHist @GatewaysFWW @RoyalHistSoc @abigaildlane @ABentleyNYC @MissionPast @Lisa_Pine1 @GCUArchives all gratefully acknowledged within
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What do you call a group of chess players bragging about their prowess in a hotel lobby? Chess nuts boasting in an open foyer. #Christmas #FestiveSeason #crackerjokes
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‘A novel look at festive feasts past and present’: my seasonal article on festive food in fiction across the ages in this fabulously Christmassy🎄edition of @waitrose weekend magazine
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Time for one of those ‘my books arrived!’ tweets. ‘Food and #Aviation in the 20th Century: the Pan American Ideal’ in Paperback at £15 in time for xmas bloomsbury.com/uk/food-and-a… ‘fascinating’ (Telegraph) ‘wickedly fabulous’ (Tatler) ‘scholarly yet fun’ (Forbes) #twitterstorians
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Airline food!✈️ Love it or loathe it,the history’s fascinating & if you’ve never heard of the Sandwich War then you need to! Thanks to @cagraber & @nicolatwilley for having me on @gastropodcast 👇 @BBCFoodProg @FoodandTravelEd @NatGeoFood @bonappetit @Nigella_Lawson @EmilyContois
Airline food: The one part of travel you didn’t miss. But it wasn’t always so—how did we go from lobster on china to those sad little trays today? Why did @NASA inspire airplane peanuts & how are airlines using sensory science to make their meals better? gastropod.com/first-class-fa…
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contributed to this bbc article about a 1913 menu found in ⁦Leaf restaurant⁩, bold st, #Liverpool. Cosmopolitan, yes, but upper class fare more reminiscent of menus on #Titanic , which had sunk a few months previous, than typical food of the day bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-me…
Got builders in tomorrow and I have curated the best biscuit tin. I’m willing to die on this hill. #biscuits #orangeclub #caramel #viscount
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‘The Provisions of War’: Pleased to contribute to this new edited collection on #food and conflict in modern history, which is coming soon from @uarkpres, and has this very handsome cover @przy_les @EvanPSullivan @maltby1941
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Dr. Scoff and the Prof: Food, History and Mirth retweeted
I recently wrote about the history of airline food for @waitrose magazine
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