A vet’s life at christmas

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“Without bread, all is misery,” wrote social reformer William Cobbett (1763–1835) in his 1821 book Cottage Economy, where he extolled breadmaking and bemoaned the rise of the potato, which he felt thr

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Beer comes in a bewilderment of varieties, produced on a giant scale or in tiny microbreweries. Such dominance isn’t bad for a drink supped for more than 10,000 years, writes Clare Hunt