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In a time when people are being asked to consider eating insects, we should, perhaps, learn a thing or two from the aardvark (Orycteropus afer), Africa’s ant-guzzling gourmand. On an average night, th

One of the few benefits of the country’s transformation into a cashless society is that schoolchildren in receipt of free school meals are no longer made to standout from their peers. With senior scho

An ‘infectiously enthusiastic’ history of herring

We now know that smoking is incredibly bad ...

UNCOVER SOME OF THE PAST’S STRANGEST AND MOST DANGEROUS EATING HABITS AND WEIGHT-LOSS FADS

The article on the battle against U-boats in the Second World War in the November issue omitted perhaps the most important episode. That was the part played by the late Joe Baker-Cresswell of Bamburgh