What Did We Eat?
Our food habits have changed greatly over the last 70 years, but now we seem to have largely reverted to the foods our parents and grandparents ate - simple home-cooked food - organic where possible - and grass-fed meat. Of course, a number of foods have been added to our diet - in my case all the Indian and Asian foods, particularly tofu and Asian vegetables, but often I eat casseroles (unfortunately not of pigeon) and oxtail such as my mother use to make, though without the generous sprig of thyme that she would pick from outside the back door. She never bought steak or a joint - too extravagant - and preferred long slow cooking in a battered blue iron casserole to any 'fast cooking'. Of course, we also dug our own potatoes from the fields that were utterly delicious and my father had a lovely vegetable garden. In the very early days we kept a Jersey cow (looked after (by a cowman, Taylor) from which we had gallons of delicious creamy milk. My mother used to make butter an...