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I’M ONE OF THESE PEOPLE who worry that we are at risk of losing our culinary repertoire. My concern about this predicament might be compared with that of the early suffragettes and later proto-feminists who fought long and hard for equality between the sexes. I feel empathy for those women who bear witness to the erosion of their gains, and their shock at the casual attitude of younger generations who simply take them for granted.

And so it is with cookery and the

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