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Stuffed A History of Good Food and Hard Times in Britain [Audiobook]


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English | ISBN: 9781004151288 | 2024 | 13 hours and 30 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 374 MB
Author: Pen Vogler
Narrator: Emma Gregory

In times of plenty, we stuff ourselves. When the food runs out, we’re stuffed too. How have people in the British Isles shared the riches from our fields, dairies, kitchens and seas, as well as those from around the world? And when the cupboard is bare, who steps up to the plate to feed the nation’s hungry children, soldiers at war or families in crisis? Stuffed tells the stories of the food and drink at the center of social upheavals from prehistory to the present: the medieval inns boosted by the plague; the Enclosures that finished off the celebratory roast goose; the Victorian chemist searching for unadulterated mustard; the post-war supermarkets luring customers with strawberries. Drawing on cookbooks, literature and social records, Pen Vogler reveals how these turning points have led to today’s extremes of plenty and want: roast beef and food banks; allotment-fresh vegetables and ultra-processed fillers. It is a tale of feast and famine, and of the traditions, the ideas and the laws which have fed-or starved-the nation, but also of the yeasty magic of bread and ale, the thrill of sugary treats, the pies and puddings that punctuate the year, and why the British would give anything-even North America-for a nice cup of tea.

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The $12 Million Stuffed Shark The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art


Free Download The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Don Thompson, Adam Verner, Tantor Audio
English | 2014 | ISBN: B01NH9Y36U | Format: MP3 / 10 hours and 29 minutes | 288 Mb
Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock’s drip painting "No. 5, 1948" sell for $140 million?
Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world. Why were record prices achieved at auction for works by 131 contemporary artists in 2006 alone, with astonishing new heights reached in 2007? Don Thompson explores the money, lust, and self-aggrandizement of the art world in an attempt to determine what makes a particular work valuable while others are ignored.
This book is the first to look at the economics and the marketing strategies that enable the modern art market to generate such astronomical prices. Drawing on interviews with both past and present executives of auction houses and art dealerships, artists, and the buyers who move the market, Thompson launches the listener on a journey of discovery through the peculiar world of modern art. Surprising, passionate, gossipy, and revelatory, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark reveals a great deal that even experienced auction purchasers do not know.

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Stuffed A History of Good Food and Hard Times in Britain


Free Download Stuffed: A History of Good Food and Hard Times in Britain by Pen Vogler
English | November 2nd, 2023 | ISBN: 1838955747 | 464 pages | True EPUB | 2.00 MB
The fascinating history of the people, the ideas and the dishes that have fed – and starved – the nation, by the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Scoff.

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