1922:Food fads
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Virginia Woolf has a premonition of the microwave, protein bars are launched and a cookbook offers a recipe for iguana soup: New Generation Thinker John Gallagher is joined by food historians Annie Gray and Elsa Richardson for a conversation about what we might have eaten in 1922
Producer: Luke Mulhall You can find other discussions about art and culture from the 1920s in a collection called Modernism on the Free Thinking programme website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07p3nxh
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| 0:44.4 | I'm John Gallowher, and in this edition, we're continuing our series looking at aspects of life in 1922, |
| 0:51.3 | to mark the founding of the BBC in October of that year. |
| 0:54.4 | We have an old fashioned tomato, a long island potato, but yet we have no bananas today. |
| 1:11.6 | Here's one thing we know people were eating in 1922. |
| 1:18.6 | In the opening pages of James Joyce's great modernist novel Ulysses, |
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