Annie Gray

2 weeks ago | lucyworsley.substack.com | Lucy Worsley |Annie Gray

Thank you everyone who tuned into my live video with ! We talked about the Tudor dish where a goose and a suckling pig get sewn together, why you might put sugar in wine, Queen Victoria’s appetite, Annie’s passion for Victorian food writer Mrs Acton, what food and teach us about class, her favourite weird kitchen utensil and much, much more! I’ll be watching it back myself for the recipe for chocolate and vanilla blancmange Easter eggs - Annie says an 11 year old can do it, so I’m in with at...

Oct 30, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Annie Gray

Animal rights activists demonstrate in Minnesota, 2024 Credit: Alamy “I do not understand the need for hyperbole and incorrect statements, when the actual numbers are newsworthy and attention-grabbing enough.” So writes Vaclav Smil, a distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Manitoba, whose books on topics as varied as energy, population and environment – most notably How The World Really Works (2022) – have dealt with those newsworthy numbers since 1976. His new book, How to...

Dec 1, 2023 | thespectator.com | Zoe Strimpel |Philip Patrick |Annie Gray |Dan Greenberg

Anybody who has been a teenage girl will know how dark and swampy the sexual imagination of that demographic can be. At fourteen and fifteen, after watching Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet (1996), and then James Cameron’s Titanic (1997), I became so obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio that I’d lie for hours on my bed hatching feverish plans for going to New York and meeting him; comparing fictional fling Kate Winslet to me (similar body type, I told myself) and broodingly calculating my chances.

Nov 29, 2023 | spectator.com.au | Annie Gray

The Core of the Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food – Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes Bloomsbury, pp.240, 20 I am a big fan of Mark Kurlansky. His Cod is one of a handful of books I recommend to people keen to learn about the way in which certain foods have helped shape the world we live in. But while The Core of the Onion has its moments and is an enjoyable read, it’s a mark of how high Kurlansky has set the bar that it doesn’t quite hit the mark for me.

Nov 29, 2023 | spectator.co.uk | Annie Gray

Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments I am a big fan of Mark Kurlansky. His Cod is one of a handful of books I recommend to people keen to learn about the way in which certain foods have helped shape the world we live in. But while The Core of the Onion has its moments and is an enjoyable read, it’s a mark of how high Kurlansky has set the bar that it doesn’t quite hit the mark for me. The main problem is its brevity – a mere 240 pages. Or Unlock more...