Cold Meat and How To Disguise It: A History of Advice on How to Survive Hard Times: A Hundred Years of Belt Tightening - Tapa dura

Davies, Hunter

 
9780711230514: Cold Meat and How To Disguise It: A History of Advice on How to Survive Hard Times: A Hundred Years of Belt Tightening
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ISBN 10: 071123051X ISBN 13: 9780711230514
Editorial: Frances Lincoln, 2009

Sinopsis

Credit has been crunched, banks hammered, the economy battered, prices up, hopes down. All classes are being urged to economise, make do and mend, spin things out, avoid waste.



It has been ever thus. In times of War, General Strikes as well as Economic Disasters, Governments as well as agony aunts, do-gooders, magazines, books and manufacturers have always exhorted us to tighten the old belts.



Hunter Davies looks back at a hundred years of handy, and often hilarious, exhortations as they were applied to Food, Children, Health, Clothing, the Home, Money and Savings. Some of the hints and advice are mystifying, but all are part of social history, and some could prove very useful in today's economic climate. For instance, you really might want to turn some cold scraps of meat into a succulent new dish or knit some old bits of string together in order to make a jolly useful dishcloth…

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Hunter Davies is the author of over 30 books, many of them with a Lake District connection, as well as biographies of Wordsworth, Beatrix Potter and Eddie Stobart. His authorised biography of Wainwright appeared in 1995. He is married to the novelist and biographer Margaret Forster and they divide their time between London and their Lake District home in Loweswater.

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Editorial
Frances Lincoln
Año de publicación
2009
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
071123051X
ISBN 13 
9780711230514
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
160
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