A Gut Radical
From popularising peoples’ history to crusading for ordinary people’s access to good food and wine, Raymond Postgate’s socialism was about the full enrichment of life for all.
English author and journalist Raymond Postgate (1896–1971) outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London during a court case, UK, 3rd November 1965. (Photo by Evening Standard / Hulton Archive / Getty Images)
In All Manners of Food: Eating and Taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the Present, the sociologist Stephen Mennell disseminated the determination of good taste. Describing the opacity by which culinary class is arrived at, from established tourist manuals to Michelin guides, Mennell describes how judgements are created without engagement or […]
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