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Food for Thought

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

* A natural greed and fondness for cooking means cook books have accumulated round me - and there's plenty of history and philosophy in them too.'
Peggy Makins takes a fascinating and entertaining journey through the world of the extravagant Countess of Dudley, the omniscient Mrs Beeton , the snobbish Henri Charpentier , the austere wartime Ministry of Food to our own days of monosodium glutamate with everything - pausing occasionally for a sip of vintage 1 plonk '.-
Readers: IRENE SUTCLIFFE
NICOLETTg MCKENZIE
JEFFREY SEGAL and HAYDN JONES Producer GWYNETH HENDERSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Peggy Makins
Unknown:
Mrs Beeton
Unknown:
Henri Charpentier
Readers:
Irene Sutcliffe
Readers:
Nicolettg McKenzie
Readers:
Jeffrey Segal
Producer:
Gwyneth Henderson
Source: Radio Times

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