Dr. Scoff and the Prof: Food, History and Mirth

Go on try these sweets. What are they called? Toxic waste........ #food #foodhistory @drbryceevans #foodstudies Find us on all the usual places to listen to podcasts.

Bring a tin today blues #RighttoFood #hungerdoesntwearclubcolours

Thanks all for coming along and listening to our research on the impact and importance of the @SFoodbanks movement and sharing in the hopeful tragedy that is this work. We are in absolute awe of the many organisers and volunteers cheers @DavefcKelly @IanByrneMP @billyliar9 🍻🙏🫡

Great to start sharing work we have been doing documenting the incredible work of the Fans Supporting Foodbanks movement @SFoodbanks Football Fans fighting food poverty: how a 'lifesaving' mobile pantry scheme spread across the country theconversation.com/football-fans-… @ConversationUK

We CANNOT lose this place - get to the @simpsonstavern Crowdfunder pronto! londonist.com/london/news/si…

Good to see ‘food tsar’ @HenryDimbleby finally coming round to backing something I’ve been advocating for a very long time! dailymail.co.uk/health/article… I’ve written the first full history of British Restaurants, which contains lessons as well as warnings from the past re this model

Released today - 5 May - in hardback bloomsbury.com/uk/feeding-the…

My Sky News interview on British Restaurants, how it’s Dickensian to insist on seeing evidence of referral before issuing food aid, the notion of the right to food / food for all, and the cost of living crisis

BREAKING: The BBC declares war on Italy

I’ll be live on @SkyNews tomorrow morning at 6:45am to chat with @VanessaBaffoe about my new book & how we can learn from the recent past in asserting the right to food amid this cost of living crisis @BootstrapCook @EatingOnPurpose @LindsayGrahamUK @angusenyo @IanByrneMP

What @GordonRamsay thinks if you don't listen to our podcast! #Food #podcast #idiotsandwich itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/dr-…

Forthcoming this May! @EatingOnPurpose @LindsayGrahamUK @DeborahSuggRyan @JWCS_Journal @MandSHeritage @ChuArchives @PHMMcr @UkNatArchives @BloomsburyHist @GatewaysFWW @RoyalHistSoc @abigaildlane @ABentleyNYC @MissionPast @Lisa_Pine1 @GCUArchives all gratefully acknowledged within

What do you call a group of chess players bragging about their prowess in a hotel lobby? Chess nuts boasting in an open foyer. #Christmas #FestiveSeason #crackerjokes

‘A novel look at festive feasts past and present’: my seasonal article on festive food in fiction across the ages in this fabulously Christmassy🎄edition of @waitrose weekend magazine

Time for one of those ‘my books arrived!’ tweets. ‘Food and #Aviation in the 20th Century: the Pan American Ideal’ in Paperback at £15 in time for xmas bloomsbury.com/uk/food-and-av… ‘fascinating’ (Telegraph) ‘wickedly fabulous’ (Tatler) ‘scholarly yet fun’ (Forbes) #twitterstorians

Airline food!✈️ Love it or loathe it,the history’s fascinating & if you’ve never heard of the Sandwich War then you need to! Thanks to @cagraber & @nicolatwilley for having me on @gastropodcast 👇 @BBCFoodProg @FoodandTravelEd @NatGeoFood @bonappetit @Nigella_Lawson @EmilyContois

contributed to this bbc article about a 1913 menu found in ⁦Leaf restaurant⁩, bold st, #Liverpool. Cosmopolitan, yes, but upper class fare more reminiscent of menus on #Titanic , which had sunk a few months previous, than typical food of the day bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Got builders in tomorrow and I have curated the best biscuit tin. I’m willing to die on this hill. #biscuits #orangeclub #caramel #viscount

S @DrScoffProf A @FewApples T @juryroompodcast U @UnexpectedsPod R @ReverieCrimePod D @DiversPod A @AntiQuenched Y @ghostedpod S @SoupComplex H @HauntedHosts O @ODParlayHour U @Twisted_Pod T @PodTipsy O @PodcastFigure U @unstructuredp T @TopDadpod @MalicePodcast @PodcastRiddle

‘The Provisions of War’: Pleased to contribute to this new edited collection on #food and conflict in modern history, which is coming soon from @uarkpres, and has this very handsome cover @przy_les @EvanPSullivan @maltby1941

I recently wrote about the history of airline food for @waitrose magazine