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Repast: The First Lady of Butter Butter sculpting, from women’s work to visual artform
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Plants behind glass: a retrospective of greenhouses Uprooting structures of control and power in horticultural history
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Grow Your Own: A History of the Allotment
A pink background with a red monochrome illustration of Tomato sauce.
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Tomayto, tomato: a centuries-long obsession From tomato trials to tomato girl summer
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Repast: Pasta e basta The evolution of ancient sustenance into pantry staple 
A blue two toned illustration featuring three folded napkin works. Two are fanned florals one is an animal.
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Form Follows Function: The Lost Art of Napkin Folding
Four cartoon babies dig in to a jell-o.
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Breaking the Mold With Jelly The transformation of a bland byproduct into worldwide convenience food
A black and white photo of someone spreading butter in front of two stacks of bread. The photograph is oval and has scalloped edge, it is superimposed atop a background of ASCII art toast and bread knives.
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The Best Thing Since The rise and fall of the sliced supermarket loaf
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Consumerism, Class and Competitive Eating America’s history of eating competitions as entertainment
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Savouring Seaweed Macroalgae’s tangled history: from Indigenous food source to climate mitigation
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Repast: Frosted Flakes’ Food Guilt-Laden Past Breakfast Cereal's 150-year evolution from religious health food to children's snack
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REPAST: Grapes Galore From ancient cultivation to the cult of natural wine
A pink duo-tone image of a man holding a knife above a cutting board. His photo is framed by collaged pressed and dried flowers. The frame is set on a pink background with outlines of grapes and cherries.
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Repast: Angelo Pellegrini and the Good Life
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Repast: Hildegard of Bingen and the healing power of green Self-Care in the Middle Ages
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Repast: Beyond Cottage Core with John Seymour A British pioneer in self-sufficiency gets back to the land
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The Green Revolution and its Complexities The Green Revolution was hailed as a miracle cure for hunger. So why are the consequences still threatening farmers’ livelihoods, as well as the environment?
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M.F.K. Fisher and the Art of Eating Through a Crisis A great American food writer’s guide to eating in wartime holds even more relevance today
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Viva La Causa Designing a Union for Farm Workers
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REPAST: Horace Fletcher, the Original Food Faddist Nicknamed “The Great Masticator”, Horace Fletcher adopted and encouraged an extreme food fad in the early 20th century –– to chew until food “swallowed itself”
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Repast: Grete Lihotzky, the Social Architect Margarete Lihotzky and her fellow architects designed a way out of post-war conditions for Frankfurt, creating the forerunner of modern kitchens for the urban working class.
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REPAST: George Washington Carver, the Agricultural Educator Carver transformed the lives of thousands of students, farmhands and families through his approach and advocacy.
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REPAST: Alexis Soyer The Victorian Celebrity Chef