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Looking for some last minute Christmas stocking stuffers? Check out these books Books make great last-minute stocking-stuffers. Here are a few suggestions for every type of reader, young, old and everything in between. Hint: You can also use this column for some ideas on how to spend those book store gift certificates that you find in your own stocking this year. Written By: Terri Schlichenmeyer / The Bookworm Sez | 12:00 pm, Dec. 20, 2020 × unique. Some family members w...

by Pen Vogler (Atlantic £20, 480 pp) ‘Tell me what you eat,’ pronounced 19th-century French gastronome Brillat-Savarin, ‘and I will tell you what you are.’ In Britain, few things better reveal our place in the nation’s complex class structure than our eating habits. When do you eat ‘dinner’? At midday or in the early evening? Why did the avocado become such a signifier of ‘middle class’? How did oysters, food of the poor in Victorian England, become a delicacy for the better ...