The political controversy surrounding the ‘sausage wars’ is the most recent episode in the long history of the relationship between meat and nationalism in the UK. Tracing a historical genealogy of the post-Brexit sausage wars, this article asks: what exactly has been–and continues to be–British about meat?
History
Review of Massimo Montanari’s “A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce.”
A review of Herrmann’s ‘No Useless Mouth’ – a definitive contribution to the field of food and hunger history.