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Sucking Eggs: What Your Wartime Granny Could Teach You about Diet, Thrift and Going Green
Patricia Nicol
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Description for Sucking Eggs: What Your Wartime Granny Could Teach You about Diet, Thrift and Going Green
Paperback. Presents a comparative history, with insights into the austerity years and the lessons we can learn from them. This title looks at two very different generations which show similarities in their approaches to preserving their futures and an ever dwindling supply of resources. Num Pages: 320 pages, Integrated. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 24. Weight in Grams: 307.
Recycling, buying locally-sourced food and vintage clothing, checking air miles and carbon footprints - our ever-growing obsessions with saving money and preserving the planet is beginning to affect the way many of us shop, travel and eat every day. After decades of plenty, we now face the credit crunch and climate change but the good news is that we don't have to look far back in our history for a handy lesson in making seismic lifestyle changes. Our grannies can show us the way. They wasted almost nothing, bought locally, recycled, grew their own veg and 'dug for victory' and, ... Read more
Recycling, buying locally-sourced food and vintage clothing, checking air miles and carbon footprints - our ever-growing obsessions with saving money and preserving the planet is beginning to affect the way many of us shop, travel and eat every day. After decades of plenty, we now face the credit crunch and climate change but the good news is that we don't have to look far back in our history for a handy lesson in making seismic lifestyle changes. Our grannies can show us the way. They wasted almost nothing, bought locally, recycled, grew their own veg and 'dug for victory' and, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
307g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099521129
SKU
V9780099521129
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Ref
99-2
About Patricia Nicol
Patricia Nicol is a journalist. She was born in Aberdeen in 1971, and brought up in Scotland, the UAE, England and Brazil. She studied English at the University of York and newspaper journalism at Cardiff Journalism School, University of Wales. As a journalist she has worked for the Aberdeen Press and Journal, the Scotsman and the Sunday Times, where she ... Read more
Reviews for Sucking Eggs: What Your Wartime Granny Could Teach You about Diet, Thrift and Going Green
Ambitious and systematic... she has made a serious study of government-imposed austerity in the Forties
David Sexton
Evening Standard
Charming and perceptive romp through the ration books... Much of the book's fun is in the deft way Nicol weaves together examples of can-do thrifty propaganda. She has trawled the Imperial War Museum and the National Archives and ... Read more
David Sexton
Evening Standard
Charming and perceptive romp through the ration books... Much of the book's fun is in the deft way Nicol weaves together examples of can-do thrifty propaganda. She has trawled the Imperial War Museum and the National Archives and ... Read more