
Why food is rarely the simple pleasure it once was
Guts talk at an intriguing exhibition at London’s Science Museum (Image: Jennie Hills/Science Museum, London|Science & Society Picture Library) by Simon Ings Cravings: Can your food control you? Science Museum, London, until January 2016 SOME years ago, I was friendly with a family who ran a venison smokery. They were expanding their product line to include a venison salami. On one visit, they presented me with piles of sliced sausage: which recipe did I prefer? My first mouthful was a disappointment. The sausage tasted of generic salami, hardly even of meat, and though I knew otherwise, it was hard to … Continue reading Why food is rarely the simple pleasure it once was