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Shellfish: A Very British Image Crisis

The Food Programme

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The Health Benefits of Cockles

Eating cockles is not just some weird thing. There's an experience there that I encourage people to seek out in some of these places where, you know, you might be on holiday. They used to mix them with ink when they were building houses and dug up the foundations before we had a cockle shop. If you're going to march, you've been up to the sands now, in all the way. There's back break in work. Your feet, your hands, in cold water. My mother's arms were blown. It was blown up to there, and then it was snow way through,. because her arms were always bare. In 1937, Mary Pump, a cock

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