A Totally Tremendous History of the TURNIP (Baldrick’s Favourite Vegetable)

20 years after playing Baldrick, Tony is still stopped in the street and asked where my turnip is! Turnips made him famous, so today Tony is talking turnips in history: have they always been so unloved, a food fit only for animals and peasants like Baldrick, or is this a recent British bugbear? And when did the potato steal their veggie crown? Tony’s guests today are food historians Rebecca Earle and Serin Quinn alongside a chef for all seasons who loves to cook with turnips, Oliver Rowe.

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Professor Rebecca Earle | www.rebeccaearle.co.uk

An historian of food at the University of Warwick, Rebecca is interested in how ordinary, every-day activities such as eating or dressing shape how we think about the world and how others view us.

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/people/staff_index/earle

Oliver Rowe | www.oliver-rowe.co.uk/ | IG: @oliver_rowe_london

Chef and author whose work focuses on local and seasonal food. Oliver’s book, Food for All Seasons, a personal wander through the food year is published by Faber and available online and from all good bookshops.

Serin Quinn

PhD student in the Department of History at the University of Warwick, interested in all things vegetable!

https://theconversation.com/turnips-how-britain-fell-out-of-love-with-the-much-maligned-vegetable-201007

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