Hi Everyone,

Here’s a bit of background reading to help supplement Friday’s discussion (2/10). It also highlights a few important elements of documenting history and culture in reflection of food stories…

Please have a read of the entire article. I’ve clipped an excerpt for you below…

Hunger was the young Fred’s faithful boyhood companion. “I have often been so pinched with hunger, that I have fought with the dog – ‘Old Nep’ – for the smallest crumbs that fell from the kitchen table, and have been glad when I won a single crumb in the combat,” he wrote in My Bondage and My Freedom. “Many times have I followed, with eager step, the waiting-girl when she went out to shake the table cloth, to get the crumbs and small bones flung out for the cats.”