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The punishing gluttony of Georgian high living

23 May 2026 9:00 am

Even in the grandest country houses guests were expected to eat and drink to excess, on chairs covered in wipe-clean leather and with chamber pots handy

Fear, loneliness and nostalgia: a return to Johannesburg

24 October 2015 9:00 am

Oddly enough, the cabin service people on the plane are constantly eating during the night, helping themselves to the first-class…