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Fabulous Fanny Cradock’s Christmas party

It was a somewhat mad but inspired decision to host a Fabulous Fanny Cradock’s Christmas party. But who was she – some call her the first celebrity female television chef. Fabulous Fanny also produced cookery books selling in their thousands and a brightly illustrated 96-part magazine cookery course. Instagram is awash with millions of stunning …

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Hard evidence – do supermarket checkouts make kids obese?

First published in The Conversation, 2013. Your eye gets caught by the dried apples slices and pistachios but your child, sitting in the trolley, sees the Percy pig sweets. The queue is moving slowly, how well do you resist? A commentary by Deborah Cohen published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggested that shoppers’ …

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