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Based on the speaker's newly-published book Leftovers: A history of food waste and preservation, this talk will explore the many ingenious ways our ancestors in Britain sought to avoid food waste through preservation, recycling or otherwise disposing of food scraps. Beginning in the Tudor kitchen, it's a delicious and disgusting story that takes us to medieval streets lined with butchers' offal, that explores the world-changing inventions in preservation of the Industrial Revolution, the hidden history of Victorian street-food scavengers, the thrifty recipes of the World Wars, right through to the AI restaurants of the future. Speaker - Dr Eleanor Barnett