Pigs in blankets – a great Christmas lunch tradition. At least, they are now. But go back a few decades and there is no mention of them. According to food historian Neil Buttery, “they didn’t appear on tables until the 1990s…rather like the Ploughman’s Lunch, they are a creation of the food industry.”
The judge on “The Great British Baking Show,” whose new book is “Bliss on Toast,” recommends “The Joy of Cooking” along with M.F.K. Fisher and Elizabeth David: “Both the latter are a real pleasure to read.”