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French fancies

Let’s eat cake! Luxury unwrapped

29 Jun 2013

Alice Blackhurst is one of six Cambridge PhD candidates to take part in a series of podcast interviews offering an insight into graduate research in...

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A Sorbet Seller in Naples by Pinelli, c1819

Cool stuff

25 Jul 2012

Sunshine equals ice cream. Food historians have long portrayed ice cream as a luxury product confined to the elite until freezing technology brought...

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Michael Scott.

How luxury became a four-letter word

27 Jun 2011

A new series presented by Michael Scott examines the history of luxury and the origins of our ambivalent attitude to the finer things in life.

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