Cooking for Churchill: Georgina Landemare
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Is It Churchill or Georgina's Handwriting?
Churchill liked to talk about how he really liked playing foods. He kept suffering from indigestion and wanting to lose weight so he consults various doctors, they will write to him and say well this is what you should eat which itself is illuminating because it tells you what he was eating. But when you add in a budget that's not great and then a cook you can't cook you end up with the baked beans on toast. I mean i knew the book would be about evoking a way of life as much as telling Georgina's story but i wasn't finding her"
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