Cooking for Churchill: Georgina Landemare
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Stilton
During the war he was told roundly to stop accepting cigars because there was a point where people suspected he might get poisoned by dodgy cigars. He said look if i'm not allowed to make them i don't think it's fair to give them to a convalescent home full of soldiers so they just got sent back. There's this amazing bit with the stilton they got sent down from Manchester and churchall obviously accepted it but someone wrote a Downing Street went hang on a minute like no one's got any cheese this is not fair.
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