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Food, taste and class.
This is an online event hosted on the British Library platform. Bookers will be sent a link in advance giving access and will be able to watch at any time for 48 hours after the start time.
Do you have avocado or beans on toast? Put the milk in your tea first or last? And is your evening meal tea, dinner or supper? Come and explore how our eating habits are, and always have been, loaded with centuries of class prejudice.
With Pen Vogler, whose recent book
Scoff: A History of Food and Class in Britain reveals how food and eating have long reflected and have been used to enforce social difference, joined by writer Ruby Tandoh and campaigner Dee Woods to discuss eating, culture and identity in modern Britain.
DayZ was ready to be released. Even today, many of his original design goals for that groundbreaking game remain on the drawing board. That’s why all eyes are on his mysterious new project, a game called
Icarus.
“I have unfinished business with the genre,” Hall told me earlier this week during a guided tour of
Icarus. After wandering around with him for a while and chatting, I left with more questions than answers.
In
Icarus, players take on the role of an astronaut visiting a hostile planet for the first time. They’re not alone, of course. The game can be played with up to seven other companions on the same server, but thematically, there might be hundreds or maybe thousands of other astronauts in orbit alongside them. Each one is waiting for a chance to take a contract and start a time-limited mission on the planet below.